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First Few Pages: My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel
Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
At the age of fourteen, Ian Manuel was sentenced to life in prison. He survived eighteen years in solitary confinement until he was freed as part of an incredible crusade by the Equal Justice Initiative. My Time Will Come is an inspiring story of a man who transcended adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case, through his dedication to writing poetry. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
Eric Nguyen debuts with a stunning novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. Things We Lost to the Water is an exquisite tale-telling of love, survival, loss, and a sense of family. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
Jean Kyoung Frazier's debut novel, Pizza Girl, is a coming-of-age novel about an audacious and wryly funny pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farell
Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
Maggie O'Farell's Hamnet confronts a parent's greatest woe: the loss of a child. This fictional account imagines the emotional repercussions of Shakespeare and his wife after they lose their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, to the black plague in 1596. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Posted on May 31, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
A riveting historical fiction that takes readers back to 1662, Chris Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch illustrates a life of a Puritan woman who plots her escape from a violent marriage; risking her life to file for divorce. It is a is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Juneteenth (Revised) by Ralph Ellison
Posted on May 31, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
Ralph Ellison, an American master, tells a dramatic story encapsulating the violent and atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children. Juneteenth (Revised) is a historical fiction about the war they fought to make lives with people they loved. Read more here.
First Few Pages: Malice
Posted on March 24, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
True love isn't a simple fairy tale in Heather Walter's story in which the dark sorceress falls in love with the beautiful princess. Read more here on the blog.
First Few Pages: Chatter
Posted on March 24, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
We explore the silent conversations we have with ourselves with acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross in his book Chatter. With tools hidden in plain sight, readers can make their inner voice work in their favor. Read the first few pages on the blog.
First Few Pages: The Sanatorium
Posted on March 18, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
A detective takes time off from work and is invited by her estranged brother to celebrate his engagement at a hotel high in the Swiss Alps. But that place was once an abanded sanatorium, and when her brother's fiancee goes missing after storm and more guests start panicking, she must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. They just don't know the real danger they're in..
First Few Pages: Magic and Myth: Ireland's Fairy Tales
Posted on March 11, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages
There's a haunting midnight dance that steals children away, an eerie fairy island that appears once every seven years, a magical silver horse that emerges from a dark lake...
