Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

by | Oct 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and her uppity, pretty younger sister, Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work—her preschool charges adore her, but their parents don’t always...
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

by | Oct 8, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar...
There There by Tommy Orange

There There by Tommy Orange

by | Oct 3, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and...