by inthemargin_o2ckmf | Jun 8, 2023 | Blog, book review, fiction picks
The Great Believers, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Rebecca Makkai, is the story of a group of mostly male gay friends living in 1985 Chicago during the rapid growth of the AIDS epidemic. The novel follows Yale and his friend Fiona from those first years of the...
by Krista Timeus | Jul 1, 2022 | Blog, book review, fiction picks
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a literary western. It is the story of Håkan, a boy trying to find his place in a foreign country. Like the protagonist, I also emigrated from my home country on the cusp of adulthood, so this...
