A man loses a finger and a man-eating tiger, missing just that toe, prowls the village... is it a coincidence…
Ponti is a very MFA-ish book, full of lovely description, visual detail, and memorable phrases, but chapters and chapters go…
The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey, blends two of my favorite things to read about: a vibrant, distant,…
I was already interested A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe after reading her wonderful previous novel, The Gilded Years. In…
TaraShea Nesbit’s novel The Wives of Los Alamos is told in first-person plural, and yet it never seems like an…
Americanah tells the story of a Nigerian woman’s years in the US, and her eventual return to Nigeria. I was…
Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy Carroll tells the story of two very different expats…
Motorbikes and Camels introduces wonderfully complex characters in these interlocking short stories in Kuwait. Each person is ultimately looking for…
I was pretty much hooked on Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah as soon as the protagonist explains she only knows…
Class boundaries disappear and secrets slip out on a long, hot journey from England to Australia in Rachel Rhys' Dangerous Crossing.…
I’m predisposed to love expat memoir, but Karma Gone Bad by Jenny Feldon chronicles just how hard is it to…