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Mosquito (Laura)
Mosquito
Roma Tearne
299 pages
Life in this paradise, he felt, was exactly as the beautiful mosquito that lived here, composed in equal parts of loveliness and deadliness. (p. 284)
Theo Samarajeeva is a successful Sri Lankan writer, who returned from London to his homeland after his wife’s sudden death. He spends long, languorous days in his beach house, […]
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (Laura)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
277 pages
In 1946, Juliet Ashton is a London-based writer who has gained some degree of fame writing fictional accounts of wartime under an assumed name. Now, as London begins to rebuild and recover, Juliet is casting about for new material with which to continue her […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Unaccustomed Earth (Laura)
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
333 pages
Jhumpa Lahiri’s first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize. After writing a full-length novel (The Namesake), Lahiri has returned with a second short story collection. Unaccustomed Earth is comprised of 5 short stories and a novella. And it is absolutely fabulous.
Most of the stories are set in […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
