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Vanessa rated The incendiaries: 1 star
The incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied …
Vanessa rated There There: 5 stars
There There by Tommy Orange
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a …
Vanessa rated This is how it always is: 5 stars
This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel
"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family …
Vanessa rated A Gentleman in Moscow: 5 stars
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Following one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor …
Vanessa rated Lady Cop Makes Trouble: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1): 4 stars
Toni Morrison: Beloved (1998, Vintage)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their …
Vanessa rated The Apprentice: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Hate U Give: 5 stars
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she …
