Mexican High is Liza Monroy’s debut novel about a girl named Milagro. We meet Milagro as she finds out that, yet again, her single mother who is a U.S. diplomat, is moving her to another country just as she’s gotten comfortable. This move is even worse than the ones before since Milagro, (or “Mila”), [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 24, 2009
Burn This Book
The following reprinted with permission:
Burn This Book
PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the World
Edited by Toni Morrison
BURN THIS BOOK was born out of a speech last April that Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison gave at the PEN International Festival dinner. Morrison observed that night, “A writer’s life and work are not a gift [...]
June 21, 2009
The Lie
The Lie by Fredrica Wagman is a story set in the 1950’s about a young woman named Ramona who is obsessed with the famous actress and sex symbol, Rita Hayworth.
Ramona comes from an abusive home and shortly after her father’s death, she meets and marries a man she doesn’t truly love in an attempt at [...]
June 1, 2009
Obama’s Blackberry
Obama’s Blackberry by Kasper Hauser is a hilarious quick read that gives us an inside look at what our President’s messages going back and forth might look like.
The authors have everyone’s personalities pegged and President Obama’s (ficticious) messages back and forth with Hillary, Bill, Michelle, Biden, Bush, his daughters and various world leaders, staff [...]
