By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 28th, 2020
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “It seemed like no matter how much I tried to prove otherwise, “poor” was always associated with dirty.” Stephanie Land’s memoir is an intimate look inside the life of a hard-working single mother o...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 30th, 2019
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J Gaines REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Miss Jane’s story is all of their stories, and their stories are Miss Jane’s.” Ernest Gaines, a Louisiana native, takes readers into the life of Miss Jane Pittman, a fictional character who recounts her life, the l...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 30th, 2019
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Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I let words like responsible and capable govern many of my years. And what good are they? Words that I’m choosing in this season: passion, connection, meaning, love, grace, spirit.” Shauna, like so many of us, found herself spinning...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 3rd, 2019
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The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She could never explain this to her daughter. You made me recognize that my heart is, in fact, a bottomless hole of simultaneous pleasure and despair. You gave my life meaning and ruined it at the same time.” Lombardo’s debut no...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 3rd, 2019
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We love broken beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.” It’s about a girl, it’s about a band, it’s about love, it’s about self-destruction. It’s the 7...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 28th, 2019
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City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.” The novel follows Vivian Morris, a privileged girl who moves to NYC in the 1940s. A college [&he...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 7th, 2019
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Alligator Zoo-Park Magic by C.H. Hooks REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The carelessness of belief in magic was much at odds with the precision of an illusion…Jeffers was making something. He built something big where nothing much was.” Hooks’ debut novel is a carnival ride of sorts through a southern to...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 7th, 2019
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Six or twelve. That’s your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.” Tayari Jones’s novel explores being black in America. She strategically catalogues the perspectives of three African-American people with different ba...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Aug 30th, 2019
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Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | Review by Meredith McKinnie “A great blue heron is the color of gray mist reflecting in blue water. And like mist, she can fade into the backdrop…she is a patient, solitary hunter, standing alone as long as it takes to snatch her prey.” In the debut novel [&he...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jul 29th, 2019
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple | review by Meredith McKinnie “No matter what people say about Mom now, she sure knew how to make life funny.” Bernadette Fox is a creative, eccentric woman, who’s wealth allows her the freedom to be a little crazy. She obsesses over fishing vests with numer...
