Review: Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, by Laura Stanfill Lanternfish, 2022. 334 pp. $19 The nineteenth-century French village of Mireville has a peculiar destiny and makeup. Not only does the sun never shine, which makes growing anything edible a pointless chore; the key industry, so to speak, is fabricating elaborate music boxes called serinettes.…

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09.04.2024

The Eye of the Storm: A True Account | Novelhistorian

Review: A True Account, by Katherine Howe Holt, 2023. 268 pp. $29 One blistering Boston day in June 1726, Hannah Masury attends a hanging of three pirates, whose sendoff is ministered to by no less a personage than Cotton Mather. Having played hooky from a wharfside inn where she toils for pennies, that night she…

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16.04.2024

Murder in Little Tokyo: Evergreen | Novelhistorian

Review: Evergreen, by Naomi Hirahara Soho, 2023. 280 pp. $28 It’s 1946, and Aki Nakasone and her family have finally been permitted to return to Los Angeles after their imprisonment at Manzanar internment camp and forced relocation to Chicago. But nothing’s the same in LA. Like other Japanese Americans, they’ve lost jobs, property, and their…

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23.04.2024

Men, Women, and Animals: The Dolphin House | Novelhistorian

Review: The Dolphin House, by Audrey Schulman Europa, 2022. 307 pp. $15 In summer 1965, Cora quits her job as a waitress at a men’s club in Tampa, Florida, and buys a one-way ticket to St. Thomas. At twenty-one, she doesn’t know what to do with her life. As a deaf person, she feels at…

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