“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.” ― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad Cora, the teenage protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, is an unlikely…
Jo is an out and proud lesbian. Her father is the radio famous Reverend Gordon. Before Jo’s senior year of high school, her dad marries Elizabeth (whom Jo calls Three) and moves them from Atlanta and all of Jo’s friends to Elizabeth’s small hometown of Rome, Georgia. Jo’s dad asks her to go back into…
A private jet ferrying eleven people from Martha’s Vineyard back to New York City one summer night plunges into the water sixteen minutes after takeoff and only two passengers survive—-Scott Burroughs, a last-minute add to the flight and the ten-year-old son of another passenger, the head of a controversial television news station about to be…
This summer’s blockbuster beach read, I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh felt to me like Gone Girl if Nicholas Sparks had written it. In a shocking act whose repercussions reverberate through the entire novel, Jenna Gray drives up on a curb and hits and kills a young boy as his mother watches in horror.…
I loved Thad Carhart’s previous nonfiction book, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, so I picked this up out of curiosity. I’m so glad I did! Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France is part memoir, part culture, part history, and all delight. Carhart’s father, an air force pilot in WWII, was stationed in…
