Liana Liu’s second novel, Shadow Girl, is a teenage tale wrapped in a ghost story. Mei’s father has left home a couple of years before the book begins, and since
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The Scots didn’t invent stubbornness, but they perfected it, raised it to a high art where irresistible force and immovable objects are sometimes locked like two neutron stars in a
Elif Shafak’s Three Daughters of Eve begins sharply, as Peri, a wealthy, middle-aged Turkish woman, makes her way to a dinner party. Suddenly, Peri finds herself face to face with
Sometimes you can’t see how something works until it breaks, and you can’t see that it’s broken unless you compare it to something that isn’t. In Little Broken Things, while
At a time when it seems like there’s a new psychological thriller released every other week whether it is a book or a movie, it is increasingly difficult to find
Someone steeped in Islamic traditions may find Elizabeth Bucar’s exploration of style among Muslim women in Iran, Turkey and Indonesia to be a bit simplistic. Indeed, the key message in
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