A lot of times, when I’m scrolling through the books that NetGalley has chosen to send me, I end up passing by titles that, like this review’s book, have “:A Novel” as part of their title. Having too numerously been burned by capital N ‘Novels:’ books that tend to take themselves far more seriously than they deserve as they retread familiar ground in the least novel of ways, & spout trope after trope and leaving me growly and unsatisfied, has obviously imparted some bias. I […]
All That’s in a Name
This week I finished The Namesake, the first novel of Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. When I first picked it up I had no idea what it was about, and knew only that Lahiri’s second novel The Lowland had been nominated for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2013. In my decision to diversify my reading list, her works made their way to the top of my TBR pile. Read the rest of the review here.