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BOOK REVIEWS – Five ⭐️ Favorites Listed at Top

  • Four Treasures of the Sky – Jenny Tinghui Zhang
  • Deacon King Kong – James McBride
  • Shadows of Pecan Hollow – Caroline Frost
  • Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
  • The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
  • Stork Bite – L. K. Simonds
  • Broken (in the best possible way) – Jenny Lawson
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blaine
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
  • Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan
  • Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett

Tag: #1950sNewYork

Shadows of Berlin – David R. Gilliam

Rachel Perlman is married to Aaron, a "Flatbush Jew." It is the early/mid- 1950s. She is a displaced person from Berlin, Germany, a Jew who survived the Holocaust and is left with the knowledge her mother perished in a gas chamber. Rachel has suffered deep trauma over part of what she did to survive. Rachel's … Continue reading Shadows of Berlin – David R. Gilliam →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment April 17, 2022 2 Minutes
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