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coming of age fiction

Book Review: The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

By Doreen Sheridan

October 12, 2022

When Isla Larsen Sanchez was eight years old, her mother Elena sent her to Puerto Rico by herself for the first time, flying from New Jersey in the care of a flight attendant, as was usual for the 1970s. Ordinarily, Isla would spend summers in the town where her mother grew up, with both her…

Book Review: The Birdcage by Eve Chase

By Doreen Sheridan

July 29, 2022

Lauren Molloy is not looking forward to returning to the Cornwall estate where she was last together with her half-sisters and their father—her Finch family as her late mother used to call them—twenty years earlier. Staying at Rock Point had been the highlight of her young life, the only place she and her older sisters…

Book Review: After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss

By Doreen Sheridan

July 27, 2022

It’s hard to believe After We Were Stolen is Brooke Beyfuss’ debut novel. It’s so assured and lived in I had to keep reminding myself it was fiction, and not the actual memoirs of a young girl escaping a cult. Not that our heroine Avery knows that’s what she’s living in. As far as she’s…

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