By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Pages
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
In Bayou Pages
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...
By Cassie Livingston
In Bayou Pages
Mar 26th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Women shouldn’t judge one another’s lives, if we haven’t been through one another’s fires.” Lisa Taddeo traveled across America interviewing women about desire. The author blended into three women’s lives, learning their heartbreaks, hard d...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 5th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “A house that first dazzles with beauty and promise can, after a while, feel quite different. Less fairy-tale castle and more gilded cage. Sometimes, it seems the promises we make to one another can start to feel less like love and more like...
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...
