Sheri Bodoh
Content by Sheri Bodoh
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Diana Wagman has shown a soft spot for both the offbeat and the obsessive in her novels Bump, Spontaneous and Skin Deep.
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Jackson Taylor weaves an affecting—if at times disturbing—and ultimately hopeful tale while tackling issues of gender, class, family and race in his first novel, The Blue Orchard
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William H. Gass, acclaimed author of The Tunnel, spent 20 years composing his latest, Middle C, and it shows.
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Tracy Chevalier, of Girl with a Pearl Earring fame, shifts her focus from Europe and enigmatic works of art to 1850s Ohio and the Underground Railroad in her latest, The Last Runaw
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Emmy and Peabody Award winner Richard Kramer has a proven track record exploring the exquisite pains of adolescence and adulthood: His screenwriting, direction, and production credits include &ldqu
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In a small seaside town in Croatia in 1964, a little boy and little girl meet. They are stunned by the sight of each other; the boy, Luka, faints, and the girl, Dora, wakes him with a kiss.
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Schroder, the heartbreaking tale of a man who kidnaps his 6-year-old daughter, could be O My Darling author Amity Gaige’s breakout work.
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Richard Mason’s History of a Pleasure Seeker seduces from page one.
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A duck-billed platypus is the unlikely hero of 69-year-old lawyer Howard Anderson’s debut novel, Albert of Adelaide, a pleasing adventure through the outback that tackles big
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A woman awakes knee-deep in the frigid San Francisco Bay, clueless as to how she got there—and who she is.
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Tatjana Soli’s new book is tricky. You think it’s about one thing, but it’s about something else. And then something else yet again.
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When 33-year-old Celeste Duncan receives a package of mysterious items from her late aunt Michiko—a non-blood relative she hasn’t seen in decades—it’s like receiving a puzzl
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An Englishwoman in her 30s moves into an apartment without heat but with plenty of rats and noise. She has spent a decade in prison. Faces from the past resurface.
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In 1946 North Carolina, during a raging winter rainstorm, young Evelyn Roe discovers a man buried in the rich red clay of her farm. Impossibly, he’s alive.
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Caribou Island author David Vann continues to explore flaws and potential, character tested and revealed, in his latest work, Dirt.
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It turns out a novel about trying to keep a floor clean can be edge-of-your-seat compelling. Who knew?
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The seemingly unstoppable Jodi Picoult delivers another heart-wrenching page-turner in Sing You Home, a stirring exploration of same-sex couples’ reproductive rights.
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Touching and amusing in equal measure, W. Bruce Cameron’s A Dog’s Purpose examines the love shared by canines and their people from the canine’s point of view.
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A near-perfect marriage is tested by an indecent proposal in Victoria Christopher Murray’s latest, The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil.
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I have to say—reluctantly, like I’m bad-mouthing a friend made of words and paper—that I found the first 30 pages or so of Regina O’Melveny’s debut novel, The
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Beautiful, dutiful Sigrid Schröder is an apparently perfect German wife—other than the fact that she’s borne no children for the Fatherland—but she has a secret.
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Nalini Singh takes her readers deep into the wolf’s den in her latest Psy/Changeling installment, Kiss of Snow, where the antagonistic, sexually charged relationship between alpha male
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Early in her debut novel, The House on Salt Hay Road, Carin Clevidence presents an image of the titular dwelling floating down a river on a barge.
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Screenwriter Amanda Coe’s fiction debut, What They Do in the Dark, is distressing.
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In her stunningly powerful debut novel, Tatjana Soli chronicles a young female photojournalist’s 10-year odyssey through love and war.
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Following 2007’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, author Susan Vreeland again delves into the lives behind an iconic work of art—this time, the intricate lamps produced by Tiffan
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