Recent Reviews

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“a quick read, an often sarcastic and easily relatable tome for anyone who appreciates a woman with cojones.”

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Emily Raboteau is a 47-year-old Black woman of mixed race, who lives in the Bronx, NY, with her husband and two adolescent sons.

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“[The] concept of past and present ‘bridging’ together, is unveiled in a page-turning romp—a discovery of love, place, and meaning.”

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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting . . . is often a graceful blend of memoir and history.”

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“the definitive book on Spanish cookery.”

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“Anna May’s is not exactly a rags-to-riches story, but it did start with dirty clothes, laboring as a young girl in her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles.

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It’s impossible to discuss Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite without discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Told in an epistolary style from the perspective of the perpetrator

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“Mix a pancake,

Stir a pancake,

Pop it in the pan,

Fry the pancake,

Toss the pancake—

Catch it if you can.”

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“The Dead Years is probably best approached as a cozy for dog lovers who can tolerate a certain amount of graphic violence.”

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“portrays a woman of great intellect, beauty, and ability to read others, whose desire for power forms not for her own glory but to challenge a system that threatens her son’s life.”

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“See this little dot?

It’s not

just a blot

on a page.”

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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a collection of essays by Julia Serano originally released in 2007.

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