Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn To read anything by Jacqueline Woodson is to expect the unexpected, not only for the stories themselves but for the imaginative way they are written. Another Brooklyn is no exception. Woodson’s second adult novel is a story of a grown woman’s remembered adolescence. The memories begin for the reader not when August returns […]
Born a Crime
BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD Trevor Noah, South African comedian, recent emigrant to the U.S., and currently the host of The Daily Show (having inherited the title from Jon Stewart). Before he became a familiar name in comedy, Noah struggled to name his own identity growing up under Apartheid in South Africa. […]
Out Stealing Horses
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson, is what I might describe as a double-layered coming-of-age novel. A sixty-seven-year-old man contemplates the events of his fifteen-year-old self’s most significant young summer. In so doing, he comes to understand not only what he then learned about growing up but also what now dictates his aging actions. He […]
18 In America
18 In America: A Young Golfer’s Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the Game Standing on the first tee, with the sun just coming over the horizon and marsh birds cackling in the rushes, I tee up a brand new ball, take a practice swing, stare down the fairway, and pause, just for a […]