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...
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...
