Entertainment :: Fiction Reviews
Big Brother
Two siblings become unwillingly reacquainted when one learns the other is obese in Lionel Shriver’s pensive novel.
The Hanging Garden
Fans of Australian novelist and playwright Patrick White can rejoice: His last novel, never completed, is now available.
Openly Straight
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
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
Family love is explored in their multigenerational Afghan story by Afghan-born American Khaled Hosseini of "The Kite Runner" fame.
Questions of Travel
Two characters, in their own way of experiencing travel, connect as they tackle life’s love and loss.
Listening to the Dust
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
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
Philip Bowman comes home after the Air Force and finds success in book publishing, but seeks love ultimately.
Velvet
A tailor, a musician and an attraction that could result in death are at the forefront of this debut novel.

