December 7, 2011
Tea Obreht and The Tiger’s Wife: A Magical Moment
We may not pay much thought to it, but Eastern Europe is quite the loaded term. The ‘Eastern’ is the kicker. It suggests an ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’ A certain distance between this and that. Such a setting may deter some authors who are searching for a more accessible backdrop, but it is precisely in this landscape that Obreht drops us into her visionary tale.
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving