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Newsletter #226

April 1, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of MacDoodle St.

MacDoodle St.

by Mark Alan Stamaty

First, for me, was Washingtoon, Mark Alan Stamaty's '80s comic strip, starring Congressman Bob Forehead, that was just nutty enough to help me make sense of the Reagan Era as a teenager. Then, to my u... (Tom)

Cover of My Cat Looks Like My Dad

My Cat Looks Like My Dad

by Thao Lam

MADE-UP

"Family is what you make it": Thao Lam's third picture book (and her first with words) takes an unexpected route to that final line, making a convincing and hilarious case for the dad/cat resemblance... (Tom)

Cover of Women Talking

Women Talking

by Miriam Toews

MADE-UP

Toews has become one of Canada's leading novelists by writing with insight, sorrow, humor, and anger about the patriarchal Mennonite community in which she was raised. So how would she deal, in fictio... (Tom)

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