“Twenty-five years later he still wishes for the same thing, that he was fourteen years old and that the world was full of broken clocks. “As seventeen-year-olds they would sleep next to each other almost every night in the foster home, with ice cream stains on their clothes and each other’s laughter in their lungs,Continue reading “MY FRIENDS – FREDRIK BACKMAN”
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MY FRIENDS – Hisham Matar
“Friend. What a word. Most use it about those they hardly know. When it is a wondrous thing.” The 2024 Booker Prize longlist was announced on July 30th. Of the official “Booker Dozen,” I’d read only one: Percivall Everett’s James. (Feel free to look back for that review.) Prior to the announcement, I’d read anContinue reading “MY FRIENDS – Hisham Matar”
A Girl Named Tommi 