Nick Corey is the sheriff of a small-town where folks don’t care too much for the strict enforcement of the law. That suits Nick just fine, as he doesn’t care too much for hard work. He’d be content to just live out the rest of his days sleeping at his desk, collecting graft, and shaking hands around Election Day, but people just won’t let him alone. There’s the local pimps who’ve taken to abusing him on the street and that just won’t do. There’s the […]

Kevin Kwan’s follow-up to Crazy Rich Asians falls victim to the classic pitfalls of sequels. The things that are similar to the first novel feel like just more of the same, while the new variations aren’t handled as well. And while Mr. Kwan’s writing has enough grace and wit to keep the enterprise marching along, the already light nature of his first novel threatens to evaporate into nothingness in his second. Crazy Rich Asians was about the difficulties faced by Chinese-American Rachel Chu as she met […]

The Kopp sisters, Constance, Norma and Fleurette, are by turns amusingly and irritatingly eccentric. Living on an isolated country farm, the sisters, headstrong, fiery, and determined to live by their own lights, lead humdrum lives of farming and housework until one fateful day when their buggy is plowed into by a wayward scion of a wealthy family named Kaufman and his newfangled automobile. When the silk magnate refuses to pay for the damage, Constance launches a campaign to get him to take her seriously. In […]