FORGOTTEN COUNTRY, by Catherine Chung
AN EMIGRE FAMILY RETURNS to South Korea from the US at a time of medical crisis. Luminous and deeply moving.
Grade: A MINUS
FORGOTTEN COUNTRY
Riverhead Books
2012
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AN EMIGRE FAMILY RETURNS to South Korea from the US at a time of medical crisis. Luminous and deeply moving.
Grade: A MINUS
FORGOTTEN COUNTRY
Riverhead Books
2012
SAVVY, WITTY MYSTERY centers on death and insurance fraud among rich, horsey Californians. Good neo-noir fun!
Grade: A MINUS
HUSH MONEY
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
THE FASCINATING WORLD of mushrooms and other fungi, explored in this chatty, readable book. Lots of fun! A MINUS
MYCOPHILIA
Rodale Books
2011
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews
SUBTLE, MIND-BENDING THRILLER compellingly mixes time travel, espionage, and digital revolutionaries. Wild!
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THE REVISIONISTS
Little, Brown and Company
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED NOVEL of an expatriate returning to England and being caught up in a 60-year-old murder.
Grade: A MINUS
BEFORE THE POISON
William Morrow
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
INTRICATE VICTORIAN TALE of horror finds ghosts and vampires haunting London’s literati. Chilling and poetic!
Grade: A MINUS
HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Novels
POETIC, COMPELLING MEDITATION on the power of myth: a girl’s fascination with Norse legend during, after WWII.
Grade: A MINUS
RAGNAROK: THE END OF THE GODS
Grove
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary
HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL MAGIC-REALIST tale of 1920s Alaskan settlers and their wild, enigmatic foster daughter.
Grade: A MINUS
THE SNOW CHILD
Hachette/Reagan Arthur Books
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
ENTHRALLING NOVEL TELLS the story of a 1950s Jane Eyre type, a brave and intellectually curious Scots orphan.
Grade: A MINUS
THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY
Harper
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Scotland
THE GREAT VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN NOVEL may be this tale of a family fragmented by secrets as much as by diaspora.
Grade: A MINUS
THE REEDUCATION OF CHERRY TRUONG: A NOVEL
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Asian-American Writers, Historical Fiction, Novels, Vietnam, Vietnamese-American Writers