1. Bookshelf 2021.
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Price, Richard and Price, Sally
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FATHER-son relationship ,SHELVING for books ,PRODUCE markets ,CHAPELS - Abstract
I Monster in the Middle i (New York: Riverhead Books [Penguin/Random House], 2021, cloth US$ 27.00), is the second novel by Virgin Islands-born Tiphanie Yanique - in "Bookshelf 2014", we called her first one, the multiple prize-winning I Land of Love and Drowning i , "a gem", and this one is as well. Covid-19 has continued to affect book reviewing this year, as reviewers whom we had to remind wrote us back saying everything from "I'm stuck in Dakar" or "I crushed my right index finger in an anchor mishap two months ago [and] ... typing was problematic for a number of weeks" to "in the midst of the pandemic I fell and broke my leg in two places", not to mention people's frequent child-care/remote learning challenges (for some books, we had to identify and ask as many as nine potential reviewers before one agreed) or the difficulties of getting books from publishers to reviewers in pandemic-bombed Brazil. I Pleasantview i , "a novel in stories" by Trinidad-born and -resident Celeste Mohammed (New York: Ig Publishing, 2021, paper US$ 16.95), includes nine chapters, seven of which have been published as (often prize-winning) short stories. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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