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...
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...
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...
