by Donna | May 28, 2010 | Fiction
Rating: The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Houghton Mifflin Company (2004), 291 pages. This is a very well-written book in which nothing happens. Now, I have no gripe against a quiet book in which the point is merely to appreciate its evocative and...
by Donna | Dec 6, 2009 | Fiction
Rating: Bone China, by Roma Tearne. Europa Editions (2009), 378 pages. It was strange reading this just two months after Pharmakon, because the two books are really quite similar, despite taking place in different countries. Both are primarily about family...