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Aug 19, 2010

Revealing Murder and Unveiling Women in Saudi Arabia

Zoe Ferraris’ novels/mysteries set in modern Saudi Arabia raise the veil on what it is like to live in a highly-segregated and restricted society. Ferraris uses her first-hand knowledge of married life in a Saudi Arabian family and her…

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Aug 2, 2010

H.V. Morton: Enchanted Travel

H.V. Morton wrote more than thirty travel books over a span of fifty years, chronicling his travels across the Middle East, through Europe, and up and down the British Isles. His books are the most charming and engaging travel books I’ve ever read. They are full not only of…

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Aug 23, 2010

Hurricane Katrina: Through the Words of the Survivors

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The story of Katrina and its aftermath have been told in many literary venues and through many genres. All the different presentations, from the novel Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, through the…

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Aug 30, 2010

Great Summer Mysteries

I finished off my summer vacation the same way I always do, by reading through a pile of mysteries. I read a number of great mysteries this summer, some of which I’ve already written about, including City of Veils and the great thrillers of S.J. Bolton. I want to add in three more: Star…

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Aug 16, 2010

When Father Leaves

The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate (translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar) is a magical and haunting novel about what happens to a family when one member must leave, and the others must hold on, waiting for his return. The novel is magical because of its elements of a fable: the…

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Aug 26, 2010

The Melting Pot was on the Stove

97 Orchard Street by Jane Ziegelman, subtitled “An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement” made me realize, all over again, just how much I love food, not only for its qualities of nourishment and enjoyment, but for its history and cultural…

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Aug 7, 2010

Love, Cuban Style

Beautiful Maria of My Soul by Oscar Hijuelos is the follow-up to his wonderful and popular novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Beautiful Maria of My Soul is a frothy, funny, and very randy romp, an over-the-top melodrama about the love between Nestor Castillo, doomed hero of The Mambo…

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Aug 21, 2010

Nothing Right

I’ve been reading Antonya Nelson’s stories for years. Her characters have grown over time, changing from concerned, confused, and hungry young women and men, free to pursue their desires yet restrained by lack of money or confidence, into middle-agers no longer quite so free, as they are bound now by…

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Aug 10, 2010

Life’s Sturdy Pilings

In her debut novel, Stiltsville, Susanna Daniel uses lyrical story-telling to relate profound truths about the attachments we form in life — to people, to places, and to notions of who we are — and how those attachments, formed in happy times, sustain us though the hard times. We meet the…

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