peneloperuthgill

"If, like me, you're perplexed and disturbed by the current state of affairs confronting us--throngs of homeless people, politicians swaying voters with silly slogans & bizarre proposals, schools too poor to afford basic materials or even enough te..." Permalink

"A week after finishing this novel I still reflect on it. The structure is elegantly executed. We learn of an event in the past, and are left wondering who knows what happened. If some learned of it, it could fundamentally alter close relationsh..." Permalink

"A singular accomplishment with which Dickens himself would be impressed. How Kingsolver adapts the full arch of “David Copperfield” to modern America—with its horrors of abuse and neglect even more severe than in Victorian England—never seems cont..." Permalink