Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Red Deer Press, 2001 The Kappa Child is definitely the Hiromi Goto novel that I'll be recommending most often, although I'm starting to get the feeling that this author is going to be of the sort that I enjoy so solidly that I end up
Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger Virago, 2009 When I saw this one with Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna on this year's longlist, I was both tremendously excited and a bit sad, too, because I knew this was going to pluck them both off the Rainy Day Reader's shelf. (The one which
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
Andrea Levy's The Long Song (Hamish Hamilton, 2010) And now Persephone Week is finished and I'm back to being Buried in Print on Mondays and Thursdays. As much fun as my Persephone reading as been, as encouraged as I have been by being immersed In Wartime reading, I have been
I didn't read Joshua Ferris' first novel, which might set me apart from the majority of people who turned to The Unnamed expecting Then We Came to the End, Part Two. So I could not possibly be disappointed on that score. I chose The Unnamed because I knew it considered
