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The World We Found
HarperCollins, January 2012 The World We Found: A Novel (Amazon) College is the last stand for the enthusiasm and idealism of youth and for four friends in Bombay it was where they cemented the...
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Ru: A Novel
Bloomsbury, November 2012 Ru: A Novel (Amazon) The Communist takeover of Saigon forces Nguyễn An Tinh and her family to leave behind their luxurious life and escape to a refugee camp in Malaysia....
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Scenes from Early Life
Faber and Faber, January 2013 Scenes from Early Life: A Novel (Amazon) The first year of Saadi’s life was spent being held almost constantly by aunts, his mother, grandmother and his sisters. If he...
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Adam in Eden
Dalkey Archive Press, December 2012 Adam in Eden (Amazon) Adam Gorozpe is a very put upon man. Like the first Adam he stepped into a Garden of Eden by marrying his wife Priscila, daughter of the...
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Reeducation of Cherry Truong
Picador, January 2013 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel (Amazon) In Communist countries “reeducation” is a euphemism for prison camp, forced labor, deprivation, and sometimes, torture. In Aimee...
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The Abundance
Henry Holt and Company, March 2013 The Abundance: A Novel (Amazon) In Amit Majmudar’s The Abundance, an Indian-American mother is dying of cancer and trying to decide when to tell her children. The...
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Equal of the Sun
Scribner, paperback March 2013 There is not much historical fiction out there about sixteenth-century Iran (Persia at the time) and what there is, is about the shahs of the day. The world of women and...
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The Night Rainbow
Bloomsbury, April 2013 Pea is a lonely 5-year-old girl living on a farm near a small village in France. Her father died recently and her pregnant mother is overwhelmed by grief, leaving Pea and her...
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On Sal Mal Lane
Graywolf Press, May 2013 Where does one begin with Ru Freeman’s On Sal Mal Lane? On the surface it is the story of the Herath family and their lives in their new home on Sal Mal Lane. They are a...
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And the Mountains Echoed
Riverhead Books, May 2013 I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. The first time we met Khaled Hosseini was...
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Darker: The Orphan Master’s Son
Random House, 2012 By its very nature dystopian fiction is dark but Pulitzer Prize winning The Orphan Master’s Son is not technically dystopian. It is set in North Korea, which exists (as we are all...
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Crazy Rich Asians
Doubleday, June 2013 “I don’t think she cares how fat her ankles get. Do you know how much she inherited when her father died? I heard she and her five brothers got seven hundred million each.” When...
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The First Rule of Swimming
Little, Brown and Company, May 2013 It did not help that on Rosmarina there was no such thing as privacy, one house so near to the next that a man could hear his neighbor’s toilet flush. Grudges went...
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Riverhead, March 2013 To be effective, a self-help book requires two things. First, the help it suggests should be helpful. Obviously. And second, without which the first is impossible, the self it’s...
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Sunday Sentence: In the Shadow of the Banyan
Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Simon & Schuster, 2012 The best I could hope was to...
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Lookaway, Lookaway
St. Martin’s Press, August 2013 I’ll do my best not to overindulge in Civil War metaphors but I tore through Lookaway Lookaway faster than Sherman went through Atlanta. Wilton Barnhardt has written...
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The Valley of Amazement
Ecco, October 2013 Amy Tan is another author returning this year after a multi-year absence. In The Valley of Amazement she weaves a tapestry of the lives of three generations of women, one silken...
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The Lion Seeker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2013 The son of Lithuanian Jews who left the country in the 1920s and moved to South Africa, Isaac Helger grows up believing the only way to have self-worth is...
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
Scribner, 2008 I am almost speechless at how much I enjoyed this book. The Hundred-Foot Journey is a beautiful, thoughtfully written story about one man’s trek from unwelcome immigrant to renowned...
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The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
W.W. Norton, paperback release January 2014 There are numerous novels about World War II and the events leading up to it but TheThe Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A Novel comes from a perspective not...
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