Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
I’ve always been good at playing a part: the mysterious seductress for the sleaze bag, the doe-eyed innocent for the protector. I had tried both on the security guard and … Continue reading
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
…She turned her face towards the fading light. Nala warned her about her skin getting darker but she had never ceased. She loved the feeling of the sun on her. … Continue reading
The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons by Ashok Ferrey
I was born ugly. That’s what my mother always said. ‘Sonny,’ she said, ‘when are we ever going to find a girl good enough to marry you?’ A cunning … Continue reading
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
…When the doctor arrived with one of the nurses close behind he knelt down next to the tarpaulin without. Word and studied the mangled forearm. There were no surgical … Continue reading
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
…In every phone call during the time they were apart she had reminded him of this, of her inability to stop daydreaming about the day she would leave Limbe and … Continue reading
The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein
The human race can be divided into three kinds of people: those who love Star Wars, those who like Star Wars, and those who neither live nor like Star Wars….If … Continue reading
The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
The reason I remember Lisa Genova’s Still Alice is because it was the first book on Alzheimer’s that I had read and because I had cried through the book. Sally Hepworth’s The … Continue reading
An Unsafe Haven by Nada Awar Jarrar
“In the past five years, the Arab world has swelled and raged as dictators have fallen and people in their hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions of others displaced. … Continue reading
The Silent Children by Amna K. Boheim
Annabel Albrecht Himmelhofgasse 15, Ober St. Veit, Wien 18th August 2004 Dearest Max, I am writing to inform you that I am dying. The doctors, however, cannot tell me how … Continue reading
Neon Noon by Tanuj Solanki
Generally, book reviews are quite easy; you either like the book or you don’t! With Tanuj Solanki’s Neon Noon, it’s not that simple. Though I managed to read it in … Continue reading
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