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Yellowface | R. F. Kuang | 2023 | Book Review

Yellowface Book Review: Fame, Theft and the Stories We Claim How far would you go to become the writer you always believed you deserved to be? In Yellowface, R. F. Kuang takes that uncomfortable question and pushes it until ambition curdles into something uglier. The result is a sharp, compulsively readable novel about envy, authorship Read more…

The Vanishing Half, a Brit Bennett novel about race, choices and a lot more

The Vanishing Half

Synopsis: The Vignes sisters have been identical and inseparable since forever. However, their adult lives are anything but. Destiny parted their paths long before adulthood beckoned. Having grown up together in a small, southern black community, the twins ran away at the age of sixteen. Ten years later, their daily lives are the only thing Read more…

Book review of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

[Book Review] ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007, she Read more…