Three Days in June is a short, optimistic affirmation of live, love and family. The novel is quintessential Ann Tyler, with seemingly straight forward characters and situations reflecting the complexities of life.
The novel starts, on a day in June,
It is 2021 and Rachel Murray is an Irish journalist, married, pregnant and living in London, when her 2009 self presents itself in a pub and she decides to tell her story.
In 2009, Rachel was a college student living
“The Great Mistake” is a really interesting piece of historical fiction about the almost forgotten Andrew Haswell Green. The novel begins when Mr. Green, at the age of 83, is gunned down in front of his home on Park Avenue
“Playground” is a futuristic story about the wonders of the ocean, the possibilities of artificial intelligence, mankind’s insatiable desire to monetize nature and the barriers of race and poverty in interpersonal relations. And more than all of that, Playground is
“Table for Two” is a wonderful collection of six short stories and one novella. The short stories all take place, at least in part, in New York City and the novella, which is one of the most enjoyable things I
The wren, the wren is a complex novel about family. Nell, age 22, is struggling with her career as a writer and social media influencer. She is pondering the differences between people and the way they think “We don’t see
Let me just start this post by saying this is not the sort of novel I usually read. It is a feel good novel and some might say perhaps a little too tied together. However, there is something special about
This Other Eden is a work of historical fiction based on the story of Malaga Island from the mid-1800s to 1912.
This Other Eden begins when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, shows up on an uninhabited Island with “his wife,
“The postman had just dumped the mail on the ground at the foot of the mailbox. My mother went to collect it…She flipped through the stack of envelopes…All very typical for early January. Except for the postcard. ..What caught my
“Be Mine” is a novel about finding contentment with age and dealing with loss. Richard Ford is one of my favorite authors, and his ability to address the struggles of life in a matter of fact and sometimes amusing way is