Book Review

Community prevails in The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Community prevails in The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

How does a small town end up with a body in a well? That is the question answered in the novel “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” published on Aug. 8, 2023. In the book, author James McBride examines how a working-class community of Jewish and African American people are affected by antisemitism and racism from the white, Christian community around them in similar and different ways. McBride also explores how these groups might be able to bridge the divides between them.

Lisa See’s newest book highlights the power of female solidarity

With “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,” Lisa See has written a fictional book that also sheds light on a real historical figure: Lady Tan, a 15th-century doctor from China who wrote a book on medicine for women whose title is sometimes translated as “Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor.”

Jennette McCurdy navigates family struggles in new heartfelt memoir

Jennette McCurdy navigates family struggles in new heartfelt memoir

“My life purpose has always been to make Mom happy, to be who she wants me to be. So without Mom, who am I supposed to be now?” writes Jennette McCurdy in her memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died.” Best known for her performance as Sam Puckett in the children’s television series “iCarly,” McCurdy published her controversially-titled memoir on Aug. 9, 2022. Above all, “I’m Glad My Mom Died” is a meditation on an unhealthy parent-child dynamic.

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