Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002, 276 pp) - (2,9/5) ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ IFA Tuesday Book Club Book - Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin The Tuesday book club was a bit hard on this first novel…
Mao II by Don DeLillo (1991, 241 pp) - (3,6/5) ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ IFA Tuesday Book Club Book Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin Don Delillo describes the novel as a tool we can use "to think about and…
East, West by S. Rushdie (1994, 171 pp – Short Stories) - (4,8/5) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ IFA Tuesday Book Club - A Book Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin No wonder Salman Rushdie has been recognized throughout the world…
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (3,6/5) (2015, 278 pp) Go Set a Watchman was rejected by Harper Lee's editors in 1957, before she used it as the springboard for her internationally renowned To Kill a Mockingbird. Contemporary American…
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (3,4/5) (2016, 257 pp) This is a young man's memoire of growing up in his tribal hillbilly community between the mountains of Kentucky and the declining de-industrialized town of Middleton, Ohio. It is an unforgiving…
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (4,7/5) (1997, 423 pp) Our book club was unanimous in its praise for American Pastoral as an incisive portrait of the collision of the idyllic American dream of the 1950's with the disarray and chaos…