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In That Number
Regan Burke was named after one of King Lear’s cruel daughters, just one of the surprises the author of In That Number would discover about herself while growing up. But Burke is anything but cruel. She fits into that category far-right conservatives spit out like a cuss word: […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
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Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Memoir and Autobiography
Don’t Ask My Name
During war time, how does a mother explain the impending doom enveloping the community to her ten-year-old daughter? She doesn’t. She bottles it up, keeps everyone quiet and focused. Erika Hecht’s memoir Don’t Ask My Name uncovers one family’s trail of exhausting sojourns-for-survival during one of the bleakest […]
Poetry
The Shadow List
Jen Sookfong Lee is a novelist and with this first book of her poetry, I got the sense of reading a novel. There is a flow to the narrative that kept me engaged as if listening to revelations that could not be interrupted. The content is disturbing, which […]
Aether: An Out-of-Body Lyric
“Aether,” as those of a certain age, as I am, may remember, “was used in medicine in the past to prevent patients from feeling pain during operations.” It has also been defined as “the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.” The lyric […]
