Psychological

“Well-written with glorious descriptions, The Tree Doctor is a highly recommended tour de force.”

“Readers will relish Adrienne Brodeur’s Little Monsters for its meticulous world building, gripping storyline, multidimensional characters, and ut

At one point in this steely cold but effective novel by Emma Cline, someone asks Alex, the young female protagonist: “Why are you like this?”

“Leah’s gradual self-discovery of her own worth . . . breathes like a fresh new life.”

This second novel by the renowned French writer, Marguerite Duras, was written in 1943 when she was 29, and originally published by Gallimard in 1944 as La Vie tranquille.

Max Little is dying and wants to leave behind something of his life.

“quick glimpses into different lives”

“How does one read the face of a house?”

If memory is indispensable for our sense of a coherent, continued self, what happens when memories fragment, when trauma untracks our understanding of the past? Who, then, do we become?

“Rarely does this novel read like correspondence. The prose is too fine, the settings too detailed, the pacing exquisite.”

“The Foundling touches on important issues like women’s autonomy, racism, classism, and anti-Semitism, as well as other social justice issues.”

“The writing is excellent, the characters well rounded with believable human flaws and peculiarities, and the plot intriguing with lots of learning for the reader.”