Riverhead Books

The Paper Palace

In The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller, Elle begins an affair with her childhood best friend, Jonas, even though…

3 years ago

The Beach

The realistic travel scenes blended with the creeping horror of isolation makes The Beach compelling, although the intensely early-twenties-ness of the…

3 years ago

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests was on my library requests list so long that I forgot who recommended it or why, so…

5 years ago

Girl In Translation

When I started reading Girl in Translation, I mistook it for a memoir, and not in a good way. The…

6 years ago