Time Shelter Book Review: What Happens When Entire Nations Become Trapped in Nostalgia? Some novels are easy to describe. You can summarize the plot in a few sentences and give readers a fairly accurate idea of what to expect. As a book, Time Shelter is not one of those novels. On the surface, it begins Read more…

Poonachi Book Review: A Quiet Story That Slowly Breaks Your Heart Some novels impress you with scale. Others stay small and quiet. As a book, Poonachi belongs firmly in the second category. Written by Perumal Murugan, the novel, Poonachi, initially looks like a simple story about a goat. That description alone might make the book Read more…