Recent Reviews

• “The Women at Coral Villas,” Ascent, November 6, 2019. Read online.
• Review of The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim in the Women’s Review of Books, November/December 2018.
• Review of Clock Dance by Anne Tyler in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 August 2018. Read online.
• Review of The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh in the Women’s Review of Books, July/August 2018.
• Review of Nancy K. Miller, My Brilliant Friends, Women’s Review of Books, June-July, 2018.
• Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck in The Women’s Review of Books, March, April 2018.
• Review of The Last Laugh by Lynn Freed in the San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2017. Read online.
• Review of The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman in the Boston Globe, 9 July 2017. Read online.
• Review of The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble in the Women’s Review of Books, September, October 2017.
• Review of The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien in the Women’s Review of Books, May/June 2017.
• Review of Ali Smith’s Autumn in The Boston Globe, 24 February 2017. Read online.
• Review of Kathleen Rooney’s Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk in the San Francisco Gate, 9 February, 2017. Read online.
• Review of Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace in the San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July, 2016. Read online.
• Review of Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl in the Boston Globe, 17 June, 2016. Read online.
• Review of Allison Amend’s Enchanted Islands in the San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2016. Read online.
• Review of Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border in the Women’s Review of Books, January, 2016.
• Review of Ivan Doig’s Last Bus to Wisdom in the Chicago Tribune, 15 August, 2015. Read online.
• Review of Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July, 2015. Read online.
• Review of Steven Millhauser’s Voices In The Night in the Chicago Tribune, 9 April 2015. Read online.
• Review of Angie Chuang’s The Four Words for Home in the Women’s Review of Books, March/April 2015.
• Review of Tania James’s The Tusk That Did the Damage in the San Francisco Chronicle, 19 March 2015. Read online.
• Review of Rachel Cusk’s Outline in the San Francisco Chronicle, 22 January, 2015. Read online.
• Review of Maria Duenas’s The Heart Has Its Reasons in the San Francisco Chronicle, 17 December 2014. Read online.
• Review of Jean Thompson’s The Witch in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 October, 2014. Read online.
• Review of Tessa Hadley’s Clever Girl in the Women’s Review of Books, September/October, 2014.
• Review of Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern and Ecstatic Cahoots, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 July 2014. Read online.
• Review of Lisa See’s China Dolls in the Los Angeles Times, 8 June, 2014. Read online.
• Review of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland in the Women’s Review of Books, March/April 2014.
• Review of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam in the Boston Globe, 31 August 2013. Read online.
• Review of Gail Godwin’s Flora in the Boston Globe, 5 May 2013. Read online.
• Review of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan in the Boston Globe, 11 August 2012. Read online.
• Review of Louise Doughty’s Whatever You Love in the Boston Globe, 5 April 2012. Read online.
• Review of Anne Enright’s The Last Waltz in the Women’s Review of Books, Spring, 2012.
• Review of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child in the Boston Globe, 20 November 2011.
• Review of Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim in the Los Angeles Times, 14 August 2011. Read online.
• Review of Bobbie Anne Mason’s The Girl in the Blue Beret in the Boston Globe, 31 July 2011.
• Review of Linda Grant’s We Had It So Good in the Boston Globe, 1 May 2011. Read online.
• Review of Alice Hoffman’s The Red Garden in The Los Angeles Times, 20 March 2011. Read online.
• Review of Jeremy Page’s Sea Change in the Boston Globe, 19 December 2010. Read online.
• Review of Joyce Carol Oates’s Sourland in the Boston Globe, 19 September 2010. Read online.
• Review of Howard Norman’s What Is Left The Daughter in the Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2010. Read online.
• Review of Alain Mabanckou‘s Broken Glass in the Boston Globe, 11 July 2010. Read online.
• Review of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Hand That Last Held Mine in the Boston Globe, 25 April 2010.
• Review of Laila Lalami’s Secret Son, and Reem Bassiouney’s The Pistachio Seller in the The Women’s Review of Books, May/June, 2010.
• Review of Gail Godwin’s Unfinished Desires in the Boston Globe, 24 January 2010. Read online.
• Review of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, and Kim Barnes’s A Country Called Home in the Women’s Review of Books, September, 2009.
• Review of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies in the Boston Globe, 17 November 2008. Read online.
• Review of Francesca Marciano’s The End of Manners; Fay Myenne Ng’s Steer Toward Rock; and Margot Livesay’s The House on Fortune Street in the Women’s Review of Books, September/October, 2008.
• Review of Jesse Lee Kercheval’s The Alice Stories; Alyce Miller’s Water: Nine Stories; and Kate Maloy’s Every Last Cuckoo in the Women’s Review of Books, May/June 2008.
• Review of Lydia Millet’s How the Dead Dream in the Boston Globe, 16 March 2008. Read online.
• Review of Janette Turner Hospital’s Orpheus Lost in the Boston Globe, 16 December 2007. Read online.
• Review of Gail Caldwell’s A Strong West Wind in the Boston Globe, 19 February 2006. Read online.
• Review of Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth in the Boston Globe, 5 February 2006. Read online.
• Review of Alice Hoffman’s Blackbird House in the Boston Globe, 15 August 2004. Read online.
• Review of Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday, 18 February 2001. Read online.
• Review of Carlos Fuentes’s The Crystal Frontier in the Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1997. Read online.
• Review of Margot Adler’s Heretic’s Heart in the Chicago Tribune, 5 October 1999.
• Review of Michelle Huneven’s Round Rock in the Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1997. Read online.

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