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Sep 27, 2024 | 
eriereader.com | Algonquin Books
For many writers, the unfinished stories that lie dormant in their minds and in their files often haunt them — their characters not resting until their arcs have some sort of resolution. In Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories, these tales gain a life of their own.
Alma Cruz is an author who wants her characters to be able to rest in peace.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
marconews.com | Mikita Brottman |Bill Schutt |Algonquin Books
"Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida" By Mikita Brottman c. 2024, One Signal Publishers $28, 280 pages It's all in the past. Whether it was yesterday or two decades ago, what's done is done. You can't jump in a time machine and change it. It's finished - but that doesn't stop you from thinking about it, from turning the event over in your head this way and that.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
nyjournalofbooks.com | Algonquin Books
“a page-turning exploration of love, motherhood, and secrecy.”Days of Wonder, the newest novel by the award-winning and bestselling author Caroline Leavitt,is as intricately patterned as a high-quality Persian rug. Helen Levy becomes pregnant as a teenager, is kicked out of her home in Brooklyn’s insular Hasidic community, and raises her daughter as a single mother.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
auburnpub.com | Algonquin Books
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
hypebae.com | Gigi Fong |Algonquin Books
Brooklyn-based burlesque performer and sex educator, Fancy Feast releases their book of essays, “NAKED: On Sex Work, and Other Burlesques.”A play on the world of burlesque and its artful removal of clothing, Fancy Feast’s “NAKED” is a hilariously transparent book on all things desire.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Kate Doyle |Algonquin Books
After Christmas, as she tries to swim up from her sadness, things which had always seemed laughable to Helen become comforting: Fate, for example. The possibility of divine intervention. Before this, she always put her faith in ambition, effort, careful choices—things she was raised to to believe in. Things that may just be myths, the trappings of so many systems at work.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
independenttribune.com | Algonquin Books
Yes, the riveting "Trailed" explores what happened to two hikers whose mutilated bodies were discovered at a campsite in Shenandoah National Park in 1996. But Kathryn Miles' Edgar Award finalist, now in paperback, also looks at why it's difficult for people, especially women, to feel safe in some of our most beautiful places. Julie Williams, a St. Cloud, Minnesota, native, and Lollie Winans ...
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May 3, 2023 | 
nwitimes.com | Algonquin Books
Don't miss "Silver Alert" by Lee Smith; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (224 pages, $27) ——— "Silver Alert" is about end-of-life considerations — creeping dementia, terminal cancer, and anxious adult children trying to do the right thing while mostly doing the wrong thing. And yet because it is a Lee Smith novel, it is bursting with life and laughter and love, an absolute delight. Smith's ...
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Mar 29, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Algonquin Books
FICTION: In her second English-language novel, an acclaimed Vietnamese author gives voice to the forgotten children of war. "Dust Child" by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (352 pages, $28) ——— When the American war machine withdrew from Vietnam, it left a lot behind. It left a military debacle so mismanaged it became a common metaphor for disaster. It left years of fighting ...
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
nyjournalofbooks.com | Algonquin Books
“a triumph for its riveting storytelling, and for Dowd's ability to occupy the consciousness of the girl she was, striving to survive an extraordinarily oppressive and dangerous environment.”Michelle Dowd's memoir of growing up in a strict religious sect, a "cult" in her words, is both harrowing and hopeful.
