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The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
Quietly meditative yet incredibly evocative. I find it difficult to pick favorites when it comes to Patchett’s work but The Magician’s Assistant has my heart. Published in 1997 Ann Patchettβs third novel, The Magician’s Assistant is her most underrated work to date. Like with any other novel that I hold dear to my heart, I…
1990s, 3rd pov, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, abuse, Adult, aids/hiv, America, AMERICAN AUTHOR, ANN PATCHETT, atmospheric, beautiful prose, California, Contemporary, DEATH, dreamlike quality, Dreams, f/f, favourite authors, female authors, friendships, gay side characters, GRIEF, illness, introspective, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, Longing, los angeles, m/m side, MAGIC, MAGICAL REALISM, magicians, melancholy, MEMORY, Nebraska, published in 1997, queer, re-reads, read in 2016, read in 2017, read in 2022, restrained prose, sapphic, SLICE OF LIFE, SMALL TOWN, strong sense of place, The Magician's Assistant, travel, unrequited love, WINTER -
Not My Time to Die by Yolande Mukagasana
In this powerful and gut-wrenching testimony, which has only been recently translated in English, Yolande Mukagasana writes of the Rwandan genocide. In a striking and incisive prose Mukagasana recounts the horrific three months in which Hutus massacred hundred of thousands of Tutsis. Mukagasana, a Tutsi, worked was a nurse/doctor in Kigali. She was married with…
1990s, 1st pov, 4 STARS, all of the trigger warnings, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, DEATH, distressing reads, female authors, genocide, GRIEF, HISTORICAL FICTION, history, MEMOIR, MEMORY, Nonfiction, Not My Time to Die, published in 1997, RACE, read in 2020, rwanda, rwandan, rwandan author, Rwandan genocide, survival, TRANSLATED FICTION, trauma, violence, violence against women, war, Yolande Mukagasana -
Sacred by Dennis Lehane
Kenzie and Gennaro are hired by an incredibly wealthy β and dying β Trevor Stone to find his missing daughter. Things soon start to get complicated. Kenzie’s own mentor was looking for Desiree Stone and is now also MIA. Kenzie and Gennaro will venture from a shady Grief Counselling organisation, that is possibly connected to…
1990s, 1st pov, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOSTON, CRIME, cults, DENNIS LEHANE, DETECTIVE, FLORIDA, HARD-BOILED, KENZIE & GENNARO, LEHANE’S BOSTON, male authors, MISSING DAUGHTERS, missing persons, MYSTERY, Noir, PATRICK KENZIE, private investigator, published in 1997, read in 2018, SACRED, SUSPENSE, THRILLER
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