Book Reviews & Recommendations
Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother is a tender, haunting, and deeply personal exploration of grief and survival. Written in the aftermath of his mother’s death, this second poetry collection is both a continuation and transformation of the themes that shaped On […]
Madeleine Gray’s Green Dot is a small, sharp novel about the dizzying confusion of being twenty four, the hunger that masquerades as desire, and the thin moral lines we cross when longing feels like survival. At the center is Hera, a restless, […]
Kelly Quindlen’s She Drives Me Crazy is the kind of book that makes you laugh, swoon, and occasionally wince at the sting of truth hidden inside its humor. It’s a quintessential young adult rom-com, a sapphic enemies-to-lovers story packed with all the […]
Book Review: Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman – A Tender Story of Grief, Love, and Rediscovery Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, returns with Totally and Completely Fine, a heartfelt and emotionally rich novel about grief, second […]
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson begins as a gentle, honey-scented sapphic romance and ends as a full-blown nightmare. At first glance, it feels like the perfect cozy novella: farmers’ markets, pastel soaps, homemade cupcakes, and the spark of a new romance between […]
Yasmin Zaher’s debut, The Coin, is a razor-edged portrait of a young Palestinian woman trying to reinvent herself in New York City while her body, memory, and politics keep tugging her back to the past. Part immigrant tale, part psychological spiral, part […]
Monica Heisey’s debut is a breakup novel that reads like a group chat at 2 a.m. Loud, messy, painfully honest, and often very funny, Really Good, Actually follows twenty-nine-year-old Maggie through the first chaotic year after her 608-day marriage implodes. She is […]
Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts is a ferocious debut that stares straight into the tangle of power, desire, and performance in the twenty-first century. Told in an electrifying first person voice, the novel follows Irina, a fetish photographer in Newcastle who scouts so […]
Ruth Jones returns with Love Untold, a heartwarming, wise, and emotionally layered story that explores the unbreakable yet complicated bond between mothers and daughters across four generations. Known for her wit and warmth in Gavin & Stacey and her bestselling novels Never […]
Clare Pooley’s Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting is a heartwarming, witty, and quietly profound novel about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the beauty of breaking life’s self-imposed “rules.” It’s a modern-day reminder that the smallest acts of connection can transform even the […]