Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day (2017)

2017-01-02T11:23:02-05:00

Mumbai remains an important character in Aravind Adiga's fiction, but the main character in Selection Day is something else: cricket. Scribner -S&S, 2016 In fact, in the "Glossary of Cricket Terms" in the novel, he writes: "India: A country said to have two real religions – cinema and

Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day (2017)2017-01-02T11:23:02-05:00

October 2015, In My Reading Log

2017-07-24T14:58:14-04:00

I pulled André Alexis' Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994) off my shelf when Fifteen Dogs was nominated for the Toronto Book Award (since then, FD has also been nominated for the Giller Prize and the Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Award). There aren't any notable four-legged characters, but the collection is fascinating.

October 2015, In My Reading Log2017-07-24T14:58:14-04:00

Carrie Snyder’s Girl Runner (2014)

2017-07-24T15:03:20-04:00

As a fan of Carrie Snyder's The Juliet Stories, I was wriggling in my seat over the mere idea of Girl Runner. But then the anxiety crept in: there would be no Juliet, and perhaps much of the magic was hers. Just as the same river can't be stepped in twice, an

Carrie Snyder’s Girl Runner (2014)2017-07-24T15:03:20-04:00

Partitions: Neverhome (2014) and Between Clay and Dust (2012)

2017-07-24T15:11:53-04:00

Neverhome is set in the years of the American Civil War and narrated by a fledgling letter-writer. She has survived the conflict and adopted this strange chore of authoring. Little, Brown and Company, 2014 "When I’d eaten up my given share of a day I’d take up my pen

Partitions: Neverhome (2014) and Between Clay and Dust (2012)2017-07-24T15:11:53-04:00

Cecil Foster’s Independence (2014)

2014-07-11T17:08:05-04:00

Desmond has returned to the island because the prime minister has asked those who went abroad to help rebuild the nation, now that it has gained its independence. Harper Collins Publishers, 2014 Cecil Foster's experience is not unlike Desmond's, but Independence is rooted in the story of a

Cecil Foster’s Independence (2014)2014-07-11T17:08:05-04:00
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