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Category Archives: Fiction

The Jungle

One of the most impactful novels in US history—its descriptions of the meatpacking industry’s disgusting sanitary conditions resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 12, 2022January 12, 2022Posted inArchives, Fiction

The Nickel Boys

Elwood Curtis, a black boy in the 1960s, is wrongly sentenced to a horrifying juvenile center, where he is determined to remember that he is worthy.

Posted byCarlenDecember 15, 2021December 15, 2021Posted inArchives, Fiction

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card draws mesmerizing lines between history and science fiction as he wonders: What if someone could go back in time and change Christopher Columbus’s mind?

Posted byCarlenDecember 8, 2021December 8, 2021Posted inArchives, Fiction

A Manual for Cleaning Women

Lucia Berlin’s sometimes melancholy, sometimes spirited, and always beautiful collection of short stories.

Posted byCarlenNovember 11, 2021November 16, 2021Posted inArchives, Fiction

Gutshot

This slim collection of short stories is brutal, startling, and reveals what people feel deep down when they’re at their most desperate.

Posted byCarlenNovember 3, 2021November 14, 2021Posted inArchives, Fiction

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