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Mar 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | M.R. Street |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Rae Carson

Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.

Apr 24, 2023 | tallahassee.com | M.R. Street

M.R. StreetSpecial to the Tallahassee DemocratTaylor C. Phillips is a collector of stories. As chaplain at Westminster Oaks, he has interviewed many residents who shared their stories with him. “Some of their stories come from chapters of our nation’s history which have been forgotten,” Phillips said.

Apr 13, 2023 | tallahassee.com | M.R. Street

"Deeper than African Soil" is Faith Eidse’s compelling memoir of fleeing Congo’s 1964 revolution as a child separated from missionary parents, taking leprosy therapy in secret, and surviving boarding school trauma. The memoir won Florida State University's Kingsbury Award and the FSU English Department’s best thesis of the year.