“You must remember, mijo, even people who were once your sails can become your anchors.” Courtesy of macmillan.com Gonzalez creates a winding narrative, featuring siblings Olga and Pietro Acevedo, and the text explores themes of family, freedom and love. Olga is an Ivy League-educated wedding planner, and Pietro is a Brooklyn congressman. As the siblings [...]
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“It’s easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy.” These words, penned by Zadie Smith in her book “On Beauty,” surmise the insight Smith provides on how women view themselves and how society views women. Smith is the 2022 recipient of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which “honors an important writer whose work has drawn [...]
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“A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world.” Courtesy of jessaminechan.com The book’s premise is similar to that of the novel “1984,” except the evil government entity is Child Protective Services [...]
Read More“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.” Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” takes readers on a rollercoaster of identity loss and formation that encourages them to look deep within their own habits of self-expression. Bennett’s 2020 novel [...]
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