Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Monday, May 15
Loss
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With aging comes loss, and for Tom Kettle the protagonist of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry, life is essentially over. Retired as a...
Friday, May 5
Enough
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A place called Town proclaims itself as the world’s safest and wealthiest nation in Saha, a novel by Cho Nam-joo, translated by Jamie Chang...
Saturday, April 29
Protection
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Lying is inevitable in the context of war, poverty, inequality. The lying continues even when the context changes, wars end and years pass ...
Sunday, April 9
Shortcut
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A dreamy, unreal quality pervades Grace Li's Portrait of a Thief – the story of five college students who meet with a Chinese executi...
Wednesday, April 5
Friendship
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Friendships can move from lightness to darkness with age, experiences and the blunt truth, as suggested by a novel of two girls growing ...
Monday, March 20
Less is more
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Economics, “ the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution, and consumption, both individually and colle...
Monday, February 20
Abuse
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Devil House by John Darnielle is psychological suspense bordering on confusion. The novel begins with strong, precise writing and characters...
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