Detained
by D. Esperanza and Gerardo Ivan Morales
TRUE
D. Esperanza's story is a perfect example of how the personal is political. Thirteen-year-old Esperanza could not have anticipated that his first journal would become this memoir, just as he could not... (Anika)
To Smithereens
by Rosalyn Drexler
MADE-UP
I had never heard of Rosalyn Drexler before I opened this novel, published in 1972 and reissued this year as the first book from the cool new imprint Hagfish, but she seems like a heck of a woman. Mos... (Tom)
Vera, or Faith
by Gary Shteyngart
MADE-UP
A light touch in fiction can be the hardest to master. Gary Shteyngart has always been overloaded with talent, especially with a kind of manic clairvoyance that sees about six months ahead of whenever... (Tom)
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