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Non-stop book reviewer. Writer, editor, auntie, godmother, curmudgeon. You might have seen me elsewhere! booktweeting.com is my website.

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A VIRTUOSO RIFF ON AN AMERICAN classic: the inimitable Percival Everett retells the story of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, transforming it from a familiar picaresque to a more complex adventure and a meditation on code-switching. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/james-percival-everett/1143678734?ean=9780385550369

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A FORMER CHILD INFLUENCER comes to terms with how the exploitation of her image changed her life. More than just a “problem novel,” this thoughtful book deftly takes on issues of family trauma, love, friendship, racial and national identity. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/allow-me-to-introduce-myself-onyi-nwabineli/1144020537?ean=9781525896033

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STUMBLING TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT in Seoul: university friends now in their thirties find heartbreak and lesser forms of anomie in this eloquent, multivocal experimental novel rich with details of life in today’s South Korea. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spring-on-the-peninsula-ery-shin/1143216868?ean=9781662602221

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THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO Jasper Fforde’s enigmatic 2011 novel Shades of Grey is a fascinating, mysterious science fiction picaresque where decoding the secrets behind the worldbuilding is part of the fun. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-side-story-jasper-fforde/1144181618?ean=9781641296281

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“MEKONG DELTA BLUESMAN” Son Vo tells the story of his life both offstage and on. From an early childhood in Saigon to a hardscrabble life in Maine to discovering his gift for music, Vo relates some wild adventures in a voice full of warmth and hope. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tales-of-the-mekong-delta-bluesman-son-hoang-vo/1144215403?ean=9798868916854

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A TALE OF LOVE AND MONSTERS is a heart-stopping, action-packed fantasy adventure, a unique romance, and a deep, wise parable about self-sacrifice and family stories. Beautifully crafted kaleidoscope of distinctively new and classic legends. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in-john-wiswell/1143735232?ean=9780756418854

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A BUTCHER’S OBSESSIVE DEVOTION to his craft leads him to the edge of madness in this marvelously evocative, enigmatic French novel. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tenderloin-joy-sorman/1143788632?ean=9781632063618

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ADRIFT IN A NEARLY DESERTED VENICE in the early months of the 2020 pandemic, a writer contemplates his native Nigeria, his life in Detroit, his love of travel, but most of all his complicated family. Beautifully crafted prose, distinctive story. B PLUS

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/new-coming-soon/products/9781953368669

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A DELICATELY HAUNTING THAI novel unfolds like a late-night story from its protagonist, a monk in his 90s telling tales of his youth in the remote jungles of the late 19th century, where tigers and crocodiles lurked in the darkness. Stunning. A MINUS

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-understory-saneh-sangsuk/18627101?ean=9781646052752

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