Tag: She said boom

  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

    This took me by surprise — Kingsolver’s first book, published in 1988, and every bit as relevant today. She targets white privilege, racism and how society treats the poor, the racialized, women. But overall it’s about how family finds you, even if there’s no blood relation. And it’s terrific.  It’s a much smaller story, but…

  • Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

    I liked the setting that Tidhar built here, but it took me about 100 pages to figure out that there was no plot, in a strict sense. The book is kind of a collection of loosely-threaded short stories, kind of a way of looking at the world from different angles. I wasn’t prepared for that, and…