Among the novels chosen for our reviewers’ attention so far this year are six works of fiction that make up an eclectic library. Dive in
each year, but only a select few are reviewed. Among the novels chosen for our reviewers’ attention so far this year are six works of fiction that make up an eclectic library. The first is a crime story about sex, race and the abuse of power on campus. In the next the ghosts of Trinidad’s past haunt the island. Our third is a story of middle age, femininity and desire. Another is a Hindu epic made more poignant by its author’s recent ordeal.
In 2018 Bodie Kane, a film professor and podcaster, returns to the Granby School, her alma mater, to teach. She sets her podcasting students a project related to the school. One of them, Britt, chooses the killing in 1995 of Thalia Keith, a pretty, rich, popular white pupil—and Bodie’s former room-mate. The school’s black athletics coach was convicted of her murder. Britt thinks he is innocent.
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