Tag: historical-fiction
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Best Offer Wins Review — Marisa Kashino
I went in expecting something almost comedic — a thriller with a wink. What I got was something more grounded and more uncomfortable, and a quiet portrait of what women in the 50s and 60s actually lived through.
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The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives Review — Elizabeth Arnott
I went in expecting something almost comedic — a thriller with a wink. What I got was something more grounded and more uncomfortable, and a quiet portrait of what women in the 50s and 60s actually lived through.
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A Guardian and a Thief Book Review — Megha Majumdar
Book Review — Megha Majumdar One of the most well written books I’ve read in recent memory — and I almost missed it entirely. A Guardian and a Thief is a simple story on the surface. But everything in it is written with such care that you feel the weight of every sentence. Megha Majumdar…
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Madonna in a Fur Coat Review – Sabahattin Ali
Book Review — Sabahattin Ali I discovered this book the way so many others do — BookTok. I knew almost nothing about the plot, which turned out to be the right way in. It’s 1920s Berlin. A young Turkish man named Raif arrives to learn a trade (soap-making, of all things) and falls into a…
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