The Intuitionist: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead’s debut novel seems to be about an obscure topic: elevator inspectors. His protagonist, Lila Mae Watson, is the first black female elevator inspector in 1950’s New York. She uses her intuition to repair the elevators. There is a rival school of elevator inspectors called Empiricists who physically [...]
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The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead - Review
Monster Love by Carol Topolski - Review
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
Marketed as another psychologically twisted family drama in the vein of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Carol Topolski’s debut novel sets its sights impressively high. As told in a series of monologues, the story revolves around the abuse and death of Samantha Gutteridge, the daughter of an apparently [...]
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