“She felt as if she were running through the mountains, alone, with no one to rely on.” Part 1: Takiko’s Pregnancy Takiko Odaka, a young woman in Tokyo, […]
French literature
The Life Before Us
“Madame Rosa was the only person who ever loved me for nothing.” The novel is narrated by Momo, a young Arab boy living in the Belleville neighborhood of […]
French literature
The Book of My Mother
“I loved her, I loved her, I loved her, and now she is no more.” The Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen is a deeply personal and […]
American literature
The Bean Trees
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or […]
American literature
Beloved
“Sixty Million and more.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved Part One Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a haunted house at 124 Bluestone Road […]