By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 5th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it’ll all work out in the end. But don’t be surprised when they figure out that you’ve been feeding them lies. And don’t be shocked when they decide that if they can’t win [&...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 28th, 2020
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We Are All Good People Here by Susan Rebecca White REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She wasn’t unhappy, exactly, but she wasn’t exactly happy either. Was adult life supposed to be happy? Mostly she was just uncertain how she had gotten where she was. White’s novel is about friendship, but the story is to...
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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977 Views
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...
