Tag Archives: Literary
A Girl Could Stand Up
by Leslie Marshall“Elray Mayhew is one of the truly original literary heroines of the past few decades. . . . A Girl Could Stand Up is…
A Girl Made of Dust
by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi“Abi-Ezzi walks the delicate tightrope between man’s inhumanity and the power and strength family members must draw upon in order to survive. . ….
Girl Meets Boy
by Ali Smith“The plot primarily concerns the sisters’ changing perceptions, which Smith conveys in vibrant interior monologues and sublime prose.” —The New Yorker
A Glass of Water
by Jimmy Santiago Baca“This book is the best antidote around to the sorrowful, dehumanizing discourse on undocumented immigrants going on in Washington.” —Ilan Stavans
A Gentleman’s Game
by Tom Coyne“Coyne starts his book with a punch . . . and keeps coming at you with tough, tight prose that doesn’t let up.” –Gwen…
Gerald’s Party
by Robert Coover“At one and the same time, a metaphysical and comic murder mystery, a Grimm’s fairy tale, a Greek tragedy, and a complicated experimental novel…
Geronimo Rex
by Barry Hannah“Barry Hannah writes about adolescence with a rare pizzazz and insight. . . . [He] flings around his prose like the baton of a…
Ghost Town
by Robert Coover“The lonesome abstract cadences suggest Samuel Beckett. . . . As a gunsmokin” wordslinger, Coover rides high in the saddle.” –The Boston Globe
The Garden Next Door
by Jose Donoso“The garden next door to reality is art, and . . . there is no denying Donoso’s central point; it takes imagination to live…
The Gathering
by Anne EnrightFrom one our most singular and dazzling writers, and the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright’s The Gathering is a moving, evocative portrait…
