“He can guess, but he won’t ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she’d never told him.” Celeste Ng’s compelling novel Everything I Never Told You gifts readers with hindsight, the past of a young girl with no future. The novel opens with 16-year-old Lydia missing...
“Sometimes it seems like writing is the only way I keep from hurting.” In Acevedo’s coming-of-age novel, Xiomara Batiste (nicknamed X) experiences the universal struggle of selfhood, learning who she is amidst the pressure of who her parents want her to be. X finds solace in her brother Xavier, whom ...
REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Menopause is puberty in reverse – a transition from one biological phase of ovarian function to another, but the way we view these two events couldn’t be more different.” Much like the woman-specific subjects of periods and pregnancy, menopause has been shrouded in ...
