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A sort-of retelling of Snow White

Once thing I’ve learned about India through my literary endeavors is the vast disparity between the lower and middle classes.  In Thrity Umrigar’s novel, these two groups are placed in direct contrast, as seen through the eyes of two women. Bhima lives in a Bombay slum.  She is illiterate and missing two teeth.  She cares for…

Quinn is a 20-something still trying to get her life together.  She hates her job but doesn’t know what else to do, she’s still getting drunk and bringing home strange men, and she subsists on frozen pizza because she doesn’t know how to cook a proper meal.  But when her roommate and best friend, Esther, is…

After reading The Secret Place, I was down to read another Tana French thriller.  I really enjoyed it but was frustrated by the number of loose ends left at the end.  Detectives Ryan and Maddox are summoned to work on the case of a young girl who was murdered in the woods of a Dublin…