Chapter 1 The book opens with Gifty recalls being sent to Ghana as an 11-year-old child when her mother was sick. She and her aunt go to Kejetia Market each day to sell knock-off bags. Her aunt, speaking in Twi (a dialect of a language spoken in Ghana), points out a gesticulating, dreadlocked man, saying …
I started reading 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand when it first came out, but put it down for a while since I wasn’t all that into it. Still, I’ve been wanting to read (and finish) at least one of her books since I see them around all the time, so I went ahead and finished …
Prologue In 2020, Mallory Blessing, dying of cancer, leaves her 19-year-old son Link a scrap of paper with a phone number. It says “Please call.” Jake McCloud, the husband of a current presidential candidate, answers the phone. When told the news, McCloud tells Link that he’ll come immediately. Part I: Twenties Summer of 1993 In …
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel has been high on my shortlist of books to read for some time now. I loved Station Eleven, and The Glass Hotel loops in one of the minor characters from Station Eleven, Leon Prevant. This book is exists in an alternate reality where the Georgia Flu (the …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid came out back in 2017, but I decided not to read it after laboring to get through Daisy Jones & the Six, which I didn’t really love. But since then I’ve continually been recommended it so, so many times. And I’ve been on the lookout …
