by Donna | Sep 16, 2011 | Fiction
Rating: Broken Glass Park, by Alina Bronsky. Translated from German by Tim Mohr. Europa Editions (2010), 211 pages. Broken Glass Park is a coming of age novel originally published in Germany (so I suppose I should properly refer to it as a Bildungsroman). ...
by Cindy | Nov 27, 2009 | Fiction
Rating: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn Books (2009), 451 pages. Set in 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi, this novel lays bare the dynamics underlying the lives of white women and the black maids who take care of them and their families. While...