The Snakehead
Rating: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday (2009), 414 pages. In June of 1993, in the middle of the night, a ship ran aground a few hundred yards off the Rockaway Peninsula in...
Finding Mañana
Rating: Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, by Mirta Ojito. Penguin (2006), 302 pages. There was so, so much I didn’t know about Cuba. Considering that the country is only ninety miles away and intricately tied in many historically significant ways...About Us
The Book Shark began as an independent book review website created by Cindy Pinto and Donna Long in 2002.
From the beginning our goal was not only to write great reviews, but also to recognize the most well-written books we read each year with an award...
Gustine Awards
The Gustine Awards were named in honor of the main character in one of our favorite books—The Dress Lodger, by Sheri Holman. Awards have been given out yearly since 2002 in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir...
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