Entertainment :: Fiction Reviews

Big Brother

By Christopher Verleger | Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
Two siblings become unwillingly reacquainted when one learns the other is obese in Lionel Shriver’s pensive novel.

The Hanging Garden

By Kilian Melloy | Monday Jun 3, 2013
Fans of Australian novelist and playwright Patrick White can rejoice: His last novel, never completed, is now available.

Openly Straight

By Christopher Verleger | Sunday Jun 2, 2013
An out teen tries to reinvent himself as something other than ’that gay guy’ in Bill Konigsberg’s engaging young adult novel.

The Conditions of Love

By Kitty Drexel | Saturday Jun 1, 2013
Dale M. Kushner’s debut novel is a masterpiece bursting at the seams with lyric poetry disguised as prose. Her novel follows the emotionally graphic tribulations of Eunice from her youth in Wisconsin to early adulthood.

And the Mountains Echoed

By Daniel Scheffler | Tuesday May 21, 2013
Family love is explored in their multigenerational Afghan story by Afghan-born American Khaled Hosseini of "The Kite Runner" fame.

Questions of Travel

By Daniel Scheffler | Saturday May 18, 2013
Two characters, in their own way of experiencing travel, connect as they tackle life’s love and loss.

Listening to the Dust

By Christopher Verleger | Saturday May 18, 2013
Sparks fly during a chance encounter between a European gentleman and a young Southerner in Brandon Shire’s intense novel.

The Cool Part of His Pillow

By Christopher Verleger | Wednesday May 15, 2013
45-year-old Barry loses his better half of two decades and tries to move on with his life in Rodney Ross’ moving novel.

All That Is

By Daniel Scheffler | Wednesday May 15, 2013
Philip Bowman comes home after the Air Force and finds success in book publishing, but seeks love ultimately.

Velvet

By Christopher Verleger | Tuesday May 14, 2013
A tailor, a musician and an attraction that could result in death are at the forefront of this debut novel.