By Lindsay Saint Clair The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher Have you ever wished you could have a do-over? Tarryn Fisher’s debut novel, The Opportunist, available as an ebook, explores this concept fully as she unravels a clever plot in which a relationship has the possibility of beginning again. Olivia Kaspen has [...]
{by Lindsay Saint Clair} {Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James} Often, when asked what I’m reading on my kindle, I answer, with a sly smile, “I’m not telling.” Why, you ask? Because it’s possible (read: probable) that I’m reading a book similar to Fifty Shades of Grey. In fact, the only reason I’m [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair Arcadia by Lauren Groff “He understands, with a feeling inside him like a wind whipping through a room, that when we lose the stories we have believed about ourselves, we are losing more than stories, we are losing ourselves.” They say that a commune can never survive its [...]
{By Lindsay Saint Clair} {Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung} In Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung details the loss of heritage and placelessness that arise in immigrant families. Told through the eyes of Janie, currently a grad student in mathematics who moved with her family to America at the age of eight after her father published [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair The Little Russian by Susan Sherman Susan Sherman’s debut novel captures the tension between the Jewish and non-Jewish Russians at the fin de siècle, a time that was rife with the pogroms that destroyed “shtetls,” the small, largely Jewish towns in Europe that existed prior to the [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy Sarah McCoy’s sophomore novel, The Baker’s Daughter, is a masterfully woven tale that unfolds as an examination of the gray areas of morality and the necessity for redemption and healing. Both morality and life are rarely black or white, and within [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Native Alaskan Eowyn Ivey’s compelling debut, The Snow Child, loosely follows the Russian folktale of the same name. Set in 1920s Alaska, she introduces an older, childless couple that attempts to homestead in the Frozen North in order to distance themselves from disappointments back East. As they [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair This lovely novel, by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, was originally published in 2007. It was translated into French last year and upon garnering almost every major French literary award, it has finally been translated into English. Following the journey of Lobbi, a young, accidental father, the narration moves from his [...]
Book Reviews by Lindsay Saint Clair In a book that defies categorization, Ernest Cline’s debut is a Gen Xer’s paradise. As one who doesn’t usually gravitate towards books dripping with pop culture or dystopian futures, I found myself immediately hooked by the all out adventure and enjoyable plot twists that the format allows for. [...]
By Lindsay Saint Clair David Levithan, an established Young Adult novelist, makes his first foray into adult literature with this quirky and innovative work. Comprised of small vignettes listed beneath a heading word, each page operates as an entry in a dictionary―the words and moments illuminating each other in a way that vividly [...]