by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 15, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a louding voice, the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni’s father sells her...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 13, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 11, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend;the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 9, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the Become a Jetsetter contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can&;t seem to find a partner;...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 7, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“As the title of Maisy Card’s radiant debut suggests, this is a story of a family shaped and haunted by the past. The Paisley family’s origin story, revealed as the narrative circles down and swims up through eight generations of family life, begins with the...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 5, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s powerful, poetically infused memoir, adds a soul-searing voice to the canon of contemporary immigration narratives. It’s an old tale for Castillo, the journeys over the border repeating down through his...
