Come and Get It Book Review: Kiley Reid Writes the Kind of Social Discomfort That Lingers I kept waiting for something dramatic to happen while reading Come and Get It. A betrayal. A confrontation. Some huge emotional explosion that would finally release all the tension the novel quietly builds from page to page. It never Read more…

Shuggie Bain Book Review: A Brutal, Beautiful Story of Love, Poverty, and Survival Some novels break your heart loudly. Others do it quietly, page by page, until you realize you have been holding your breath for far too long. Shuggie Bain belongs to the second kind. Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut does not make for Read more…