“Eileen” is a mystery-thriller crime book following our main character’s disappearance during the week leading up to Christmas.
Book Review: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
“Woman, Eating” follows a 23-year-old vampire starting her art internship and living independently from her mother for the first time.
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
“The Winter Vault” is an expansive book of love, displacement, and grief, written in Anne Michaels’s distinctive poetic style. It is a dual-timeline historical novel, following a young grieving couple and their time spent in Canada (during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway) and Egypt (during the building of the Aswam dam.)
Book Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Set at the backdrop of the turn of the century, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” follows a privileged narrator (thin, pretty, white, rich, you get the gist) who hibernates in a drug-induced state for a year in her paid-for Upper East Side apartment. On the surface, she has everything any girl wants. But through the cracks, we meet a character who’s deeply flawed and terribly, terribly alone.
Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
“Revolutionary Road” is the quintessential American novel, depicting the pitfalls of the American dream, outlining a young suburban couple’s vibrant expectations and their eventual crushed dreams through the lens of marital degradation.
Book Review: Luster by Raven Leilani
“Luster” by Raven Leilani is the PERFECT book for every 20-something out there. It truly encapsulates that – at once – confusing, exciting, and depressing decade.
Book Review: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
“On Beauty” by Zadie Smith is a fantastic complex book and will make you feel seen in different ways. I read it during my undergrad and fell in love with this novel.
