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 | Sep 7, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in November 2005) Rating: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002), 530 pages. Middlesex is an original and exceptionally well-written book about a hermaphrodite believed to be female at birth who was...