By Nathan Coker
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Oct 5th, 2020
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by Curtis Sittenfeld Nightstands and Coffee Tables | BayouPages REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “When I finished, I walked along Walter St, not entirely sure what to do. I had no idea, of course, that all of my feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great [&hell...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Families like the Miltons had always pulled the levers of the country in quiet, without considering that quiet to be anything strange, passing down that expectation to their sons early on.” This sweeping literary masterpiece c...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “When you change a scent, you change the memory.” I read this book with my nose. This is a glorious love letter to the power of the senses, particularly smell and its connection to memory. Bauermeister writes eloquently about n...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Growing up out here in the country taught me things. Taught me that after the first fat flush of life, time eats away at things; it rusts machinery, it matures animals to become hairless and featherless, and it withers plants…...
By Nathan Coker
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Jul 30th, 2020
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Nightstands & Coffee Tables REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I think it would be best if we went our separate ways, and that those paths never again connected.” This timely debut novel by Kiley Reid speaks to two different audiences simultaneously, exposing the truths we keep hidden from one another ...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jun 5th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “These crises and catastrophes had braided the four of them together, like vines around a trunk. Easy to believe those bonds hid no malice in their grip; easy to believe they could hold forever.” Holsinger’s novel explores the ties that bind...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jun 5th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We’re submerged, all of us. You, me, the children, our friends, their children, everybody else…The plain fact is that we will be carried along by the Lazy River, at the same rate, under the same relentless Spanish sun, for ever, until we ar...
By Cassie Livingston
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Apr 29th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “How did we know when behavior was inappropriate? We just did. Any woman over the age of fourteen probably did. Believe it or not, we didn’t want to be offended.” The debut adult novel by Baker sizzles with sharp wit, intriguing narrative pl...
By Cassie Livingston
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Apr 29th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She’d learned that the beginning of one’s life mattered the most, that life was too heavy in that way.” This family saga by Keane is the fictional story of two families, who begin as neighbors in 1973 New York. The husbands, both rookie pol...
By Cassie Livingston
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Mar 26th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Charley caught a scent of Louisiana on the June breeze; the aroma of red clay, peppery as cayenne, musty as compost, and beneath it, the hint of mildew and Gulf water.” Recently widowed, Charley Bordelon leaves the comforts of Los Angeles t...
