Between Generations: Two Novels and a Memoir

2023-10-04T11:25:00-04:00

Cristina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans (2014) Bond Street Books - Random House, 2014 It’s risky, fragmenting narration into a large number of voices, but it’s the perfect format for a novel about the experiences of newcomers to the United States, who can have an astonishing variety

Between Generations: Two Novels and a Memoir2023-10-04T11:25:00-04:00

Alexi Zentner’s The Lobster Kings (2014)

2014-09-10T19:34:11-04:00

Like his first novel, Touch, The Lobster Kings showcases Alexi Zentner’s penchant for storytelling. Knopf Canada, 2014 Readers who learn that this novel is a retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy "King Lear" might expect the tale to distance readers, with the original story centuries old and memories of stilted

Alexi Zentner’s The Lobster Kings (2014)2014-09-10T19:34:11-04:00

David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)

2014-10-07T13:49:14-04:00

David Adams Richards has set many works in the Miramichi, beginning with his classic trilogy (Nights Below Station Street, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down), so that the landscape of New Brunswick has become a character in its own right in his

David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)2014-10-07T13:49:14-04:00

Padma Viswanathan’s The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (2014)

2014-09-15T11:34:23-04:00

The dedication to Padma Viswanathan's second novel: For the lost, and for the living. Random House of Canada, 2014 Therein, the reader haa a clue, for The Ever After of Ashwin Rao is equally preoccupied with losing and living. The novel opens in 2004, on the precipice of the trial which

Padma Viswanathan’s The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (2014)2014-09-15T11:34:23-04:00

Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk (2014)

2019-05-11T19:56:20-04:00

One might say that Medicine Walk is a novel about the disconnect between a father and a son. McClelland & Stewart, 2014 “Eldon Starlight. Franklin Starlight. Four blunt syllables conjuring nothing. When he appeared the kid would watch him and whisper his name under his breath, waiting for

Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk (2014)2019-05-11T19:56:20-04:00
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