Publisher: Algonquin Books

Descent by Tim Johnston

March 30, 2015 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Descent by Tim Johnston

I’m a true crime junkie, one of my favorite channels is ID (Investigation Discovery) which plays a loop of Disappeared shows where women go out for a quart of milk and never comes back. The synopsis of Descent, involving a young girl who goes missing seemed to fit into that disturbing genre of choice. Fond […]

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Review: When She Woke

February 7, 2014 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Review: When She Woke

I originally gained interest for When She Woke because I loved Hillary Jordan’s first novel Mudbound.  I felt the premise sounded very thought-provoking and being pro-choice myself grew an even keener interest.  Then I saw it had been compared to Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale.  I. Must. Read. After Hannah is released from her thirty […]

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Review: Mudbound

January 24, 2014 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Review: Mudbound

I read Mudbound several years ago for book club. We had gone through a rut of “happy books” which are not to my taste — I prefer a little hardship in my reading material. A guy had recently joined which had me thinking “good, our selections won’t/can’t be gender specific and will be of more […]

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