The end of the world as we know it is the focus of Emily St. John Mandel’s surprisingly humane Station Eleven. … More The End is Nigh in Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window is yet another mystery novel with an unreliable, alcoholic female narrator and I can’t yawn hard enough. … More Let’s Do Away with This Mystery Novel Trend in The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn
The Association of Small Bombs begins with a sudden explosion in a Delhi marketplace in 1996. Two young brothers, Tushar and Nakul Khurana, are killed. Their friend Mansoor Ahmed survives. The novel then follows what happens over the next twenty years in order to show the ripple effect that this “small bomb” has. Tushar and … More A Culture of Violence: The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan: Book Review
