Tag: The Night Ocean
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (2017) When Marina’s husband, Charles, checks out of the mental hospital after having a breakdown and disappears with only his clothes left behind at the shore of a lake, she retraces his footsteps in…
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Recommended Reading from the Rooster’s Summer Reading Challenge
I recently posted about the Summer Reading Challenge, a mini Tournament of Books. I discovered two great new reads via this challenge. Marlena by Julie Buntin is a coming-of-age story with such a genuine narrative voice and such well-delineated characters that it takes on all the appearance of truth. After her parents’ divorce, Cat moves with her brother…
Shannon Turlington 