The crushing, powerful and moving story of a survivor of domestic violence in Trinidad and Tobago, The Bread the Devil Knead nevertheless manages to find glimmers of light, love and wit in the aggressively and painfully patriarchal world inhabited by our protagonist.
Read MoreSmall Deaths begins with death: a murder inside a brothel in the red light district in Calcutta called Shonagachi. A woman named Maya is murdered and no one seems to know who did it. The local authorities don’t care and brush it off as an everyday occurrence in such a neighborhood. Soon it’s up to the other women in the brothel to get to the bottom of whodunit.
Read MoreWhen I picked up Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful, I was excited to get a more femme retelling of one of my favorite books of all time, The Great Gatsby. What I ended up getting was a new mantra: if white men can rewrite history, women of color can rewrite their books. Let’s face it, literature has stood the test of time better than history, anyway.
Read MoreVirginia Méndez, a Spanish author, speaker and founder of the Feminist Shop, lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland with husband Chris, son Eric and daughter Nora. She is the writer of a feminist book series for children called Mika & Lolo, but what fascinated me was her feminist and gender-creative parenting guide, Childhood Unlimited.
Read MoreDoes the novelty of This is How You Lose the Time War lie in the authors who penned it, the feminine and LGBTQ themes, the lack of male characters in sci-fi, or the fun reimaging of the time travel subgenre? Yes to all of the above.
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