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Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin
Persian Girls delivers on all accounts and has made me want to learn more not only about this intriguing woman but also about Iranian history and culture in general.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Trees and Brownstones Grow in BrooklynI recently finished Betty Smith’s classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and I can’t get Francie, Neeley, and the gang out of my head. That, my friends, is the mark of a book that’s bound to be one of my all-time favorites.
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The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose
I give this one 4 espresso cups out of 5 for the author’s impressive ability to keep me turning the pages–yes, all 464 of them in record time.
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On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad
On Borrowed Wings tells the story of Adele, a sixteen-year-old girl in the 1930s who takes the place of her deceased brother in the Yale entering class.
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I am Charlotte Simmons by Thomas Wolfe
I started. And stopped. And repeated that pattern since December until yesterday when I was so happy to close that 700-plus page tome once and for all.
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Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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