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It took Chariandy a decade to write Brother, and it is a breathtaking achievement. It is a compulsive, brutal and flawless novel that is full of accomplished storytelling with not a word spare.

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The book ends up about where the reader expects it will, but the well-drawn and emotionally engaging characters make this novel a fine place for a teen to pass the time.

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Thomson has created a taut, magnificently controlled novel about creativity and personal survival that is a lucid reflection of the period it describes, as the surface of a surrealist picture is lucid.

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Kamen’s first-person perspective is funny and very present, while Rock does a terrific job of creating authentic, realistic characters who are exploring many layers of romance and kink while delving into emotionally deep territory...

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Her young protagonist’s childhood naïveté is charming, but the reader will enjoy seeing her become an elegant, mature young woman, aged by experiences that many other people never witness.

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“Baldwin’s representations of domesticity in Just Above [My Head] triangulate the notions of space, self, and story to build revolutionary shelters for non-normative black bodies”—but Zaborowska’s readings into Baldwin’s work are thoughtful and illuminating. An opinionated and passionate book on one of the 20th century’s most important writers.

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Oh and hey, apparently since he cannot steal for years, now he needed to steal two paintings one after another. Why? I skipped to the end after chapter 12 and there was a monologue at the end, something about changing the world because of his stealing. I was irritated and frustrated and just could not bring myself to continue.

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America Is Not the Heart is at its most moving when tracking the small, arduous steps by which integration actually happens, whether social, cultural or emotional. It seems that some dreams, albeit the ones not outsized enough to be blazoned in neon, can come true in America after all.

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The book’s ending, with its series of sentences all beginning with “J’aime,” is exuberant, Whitmanesque, Orphic: “and in this place, I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” A wise, astute, and luminous literary commonplace book.

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...the author’s attempt to get into the psyche of a pre-Stonewall gay man is admirable. A touching scene with Frederick and his mother is also one of the novel’s highlights. A frank yet subtle novel about the old and the new and about the steps that led to the gay rights movement.

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As you can see I enjoyed quite a lot in this book. But I did not enjoy couple of plot twists. The first one was just something I struggled to suspend disbelief about – a tremendous coincidence which ends up being a very significant one in order to make the story move where it needs to go.

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A richly observed portrait of Britain’s young and feckless that’s compromised by a weak, uninvolving protagonist.

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“Stray City” makes an expansive canvas, diverse and colorful, for a vibrant portrait of a woman coming into her own, in a city also coming into its own, brimming with music, art and beauty.

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The tale glides along smoothly in English thanks to Cohen’s fluid translation. As the mystery of the diamond unfolds, characters’ paths cross in unexpected ways—reminding the reader that we are all, in some way or another, connected.

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And I do not think I will spoil much if I say that yes, they do find their way back to each other. Have I believed in their connection? Yes, absolutely. We never even hear from Easy, James is the only one who narrates the story and I could feel their love for each other.

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However spare, though, the portrait painted of 1980s Iran’s political climate—and in particular the situation of gay and lesbian people and political prisoners—is haunting.

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As a reader I understand that he wants to flee, yet I can’t help wanting to stay. Still, there’s so much generosity and spirit and humor shared by whatever characters are on the page at any given time that I was always happy to accompany them.

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It could so easily feel fragmented, repetitive, or didactic, but Arditti is a master storyteller who uses his theological literacy sparingly to deliver a challenging but enthralling read.

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This is an unashamedly readable novel, one that goes out of its way to please; indeed it feels occasionally like Hollinghurst is trying to house all the successful elements of his previous books under the roof of one novel. It’s funnier, more warm-hearted, less waspish than any of his books so far, but still undoubtedly the work of a master.

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There are signs Iweala knew his long-gestating novel had problems. In the acknowledgments he thanks his editor for her “tolerance of tabletops full of index cards instead of pages of text.”

NY Times

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