![]() ![]() Much of the novel recounts Desiree’s search for her missing twin and how that search is completed by Desiree’s daughter. Desiree has fled an abusive marriage to a Black man and brought her daughter back to Mallard, while Stella is passing for White, is married to a businessman, has a daughter with him, and lives in California. Ten years later, their lives have diverged in radically different directions. The plot concerns identical twins Desiree and Stella Vignes, who leave their small Louisiana village at the age of 16 to seek their fortune in New Orleans. Since the novel is driven by the perceptions and recollections of its characters, the story does not move in a linear fashion. Just as the time and location shift among numerous places and decades, the limited third-person narrative point of view shifts among multiple people. The story begins in the small village of Mallard, Louisiana, in 1968 and then skips to New Orleans, New York, Southern California, and back to Mallard between 1978 and the early 1980s. ![]() The novel is set in several locations during different time periods. ![]()
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In Book 9, a dragon rebellion is coming-filled with the meanest, nastiest dragons in the Archipelago. The How to Train Your Dragon series chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Viking underdog Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragon, Toothless. The How to Train Your Dragon series chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Viking underdog Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his dragon, Toothless. 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Two other authors came to mind as I read this book: George Eliot and John Updike. The author was a friend of Mark Twain, and it’s easy to imagine the two writers inspiring each other. Howells was celebrated in his day for telling it like it was, yet he managed to describe even the most prosaic of business transactions with grace, economy and wit. ![]() This is an account of the life of a late-19th century American businessman and his family. Plenty happens in The Rise of Silas Lapham, and yet the particulars are so quotidian that a summary is likely to sound dull. To relegate such a rich and humane work to a state of graceful neglect is a loss that’s almost criminal. Copies sit there on the library shelf, unmoving and unread. Its classic status clings to it the way verdigris adheres to a bronze statue. This is one of those novels whose title vaguely rings a bell, like Zuleika Dobson or Ethan Frome. 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![]() ![]() Unsure if he is friend or foe, she claims not to remember her own name or how she’d come to be in the clearing. But after a struggle over a plaid she tried to “borrow,” she awakens in a strange bed with a strange man seated in a chair beside her. Kidnapped and forced to wed her clan’s enemy, Allissaid MacFarlane had risked death to escape. He’d have to take her back to his castle and tend her wounds to learn that. ![]() Having hit her head when he’d tackled her to the ground, the woman was now unconscious and couldn’t explain how she had ended up bruised and naked in his woods. Calan gave chase and managed to catch the lad, only the lad turned out to be a lass, and obviously a lady. What he didn’t need was a thief running away with his plaid while he swam. For fans of Outlander, New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ newest installment of the Highland Brides series brings us a sweeping tale of passion as a laird’s swim in a loch leads to the love of a lifetime.Īn invigorating swim in the loch was exactly what Calan Campbell, Laird of Kilcairn, needed after defeating his enemies in battle. ![]() ![]() He escapes prison time on grounds of insanity. At the end of the novel, Foy has another crisis and threatens to shoot himself, before ultimately shooting the narrator. Foy dislikes the narrator, who he calls “the sellout.” He believes that the narrator is on “the wrong side” because he embraces segregation, yet refuses to understand that the narrator is only doing this in an effort to bring back Dickens. The Sellout takes place in the peripheries of Los Angeles, in a fictional town that used to be called Dickens. Foy stole the narrator’s father’s ideas and pretended they were his own, yet still called on the narrator’s father when he had a mental health crisis years later. Paul Beatty’s The Sellout offers us ample ground to think about craft and theme: every page is rich in detail and images, generating new reversals, ironies, and constellations on how we are to think about race, identity, and power. Furthermore, he explicitly tries to avoid confronting stereotypes and racism directly-thus taking the opposite approach to the narrator and the narrator’s father-by rewriting classic literature to remove any racial slurs or references to slavery. He is extraordinarily vain, and although his work centers around black people, he seems more interested in becoming rich and famous than fighting for racial equality. Foy Cheshire is an academic, “fading TV personality,” and the cofounder of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals. ![]() ![]() As Violet suffers schizophrenia, Elizabeth is drawn surprisingly to her resented stepfather's side. Elizabeth is thrust into a conflict beyond her years and tries to help morose George, despite the fact that he cares only for himself. Violet divorces George, from whom she has long been emotionally estranged, and moves in with Harry Elton. Tragedy strikes when her foster brother, Sean O'Connor, dies fighting in the British Army.Įlizabeth returns home to the aftermath of war, tries to explain her experiences, and finds it hard to cope with being parted from her Irish family. Over five years, Elizabeth grows into an integral part of the boisterous clan. The White family in 1940 sends sheltered ten-year-old only daughter Elizabeth from London to safety in Ireland in care of Violet White's school mate, Eileen O'Connor. ![]() Linked only by letters for most of the novel, as they mature and each find tragedy in love, Elizabeth and Aisling are reunited towards the end in London where, both widowed, they resolve to begin life again together. ![]() ![]() ![]() The families are first entwined when Elizabeth White, at age ten, is sent to Kilgarret, Ireland, to escape the German bombing of London and is adopted for five years by the O'Connors, whose daughter Aisling is also ten. Maeve Bincy's Light a Penny Candle follows two families, one English and the other Irish, through a period of twenty years (1940-1960). ![]() ![]() ![]() Cash isn't the most dominant of tops, but he's got a wide repertoire of skills, and he'd be happy to practice every single one of them on Harry, the sub who's so new to the scene he doesn't even know his own kinks. When Cash meets the handsome man brimming with nervous energy, he feels like he's struck gold. ![]() And how can he be honest about what he wants sexually when he can't be honest about anything else? He's always wondered if BDSM might be for him, but this wasn't how he intended to find out. Wearing a collar, pretending he's submissive, searching for a Dom who can get him into the elite BDSM club where a seventeen-year-old boy has gone missing-his first time working undercover is really stretching his boundaries. Private Investigator Harrison Fisher's latest case isn't going the way he hoped. ![]() |