Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal (2008) McClelland & Stewart, 2010 I felt like a teenager when I started reading this novel. I'd switched purses seasonally and forgot to transfer my housekeys, so I ended up sitting on the front porch for a few hours waiting for Mr. BIP to come home.
Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms (1993) This debut novel is a great choice for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge because relationships, particularly those between women, are at the heart of it, even more particularly, the relationships between three women in one family: Naoe, Keiko and Muriel (a.k.a. Murasaki, which is
Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy Harper Collins, 2009 "...and it's a story that I think hasn't been told before..." That's how Nadifa Mohamed describes her first novel, Black Mamba Boy in this video. Maybe that's a tall order for a novel in 2010. And, then again, maybe not. Consider this.
Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here Random House, 1986 The Women Unbound Reading Challenge was the perfect excuse that I needed to fill the gap in my Dionne Brand reading with her first novel In Another Place, Not Here. I bought my copy on the weekend (I loaned out
Attica Locke's Black Water Rising Harper Collins, 2009 So if I was relieved to see how relatively short Laila Lalami's The Secret Son was, when I picked it up from the library, as part of my insane Read-the-Orange-Prize-Longlist plan, you can imagine how disheartened I was to see how relatively
