Fiction Book

Fiction Book

Tuesday 01 July 2008

• Book Review: Boy A

  

  This thoughtful, smoothly written story unfolds by alternating between present day and childhood events that led up to a heinous crime perpetrated by two alienated youth. Once known only by his court designation, Child A...

Tuesday 24 June 2008

• Book Review: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  

  This intriguing collection of observations is rather like eavesdropping on someone’s inner dialog, it is at once fascinating and hilarious. Sedaris skips through childhood memories replete with the babysitter from hell...

Tuesday 10 June 2008

• Book Review: Made in the U.S.A.

  A heart-stoppingly tragic yet ultimately uplifting tale of two children left to cope on their own after the sudden death of Floy Satterfield, their father’s ex-girlfriend. Fifteen-year-old Lutie McFee and her eleven-year-old brother Fate leave Spearfish, South Dakota in...