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Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

July 27, 2020

Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

(New York: Knopf, 2020) “Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicenter, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. This moment is the absent mother’s.” Thus remarks the narrator in the opening pages of Irish author Maggie … Continued

A Review of Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

February 2, 2014

Jody Handerson

(New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) If you had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this. He made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved … Continued

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