This was such a good book! While the story was about a family of lawyers, the book is more about the family members and their dynamic. The family’s “good” son comes to the family’s less respected son to ask for help; he’s gotten himself into a serious situation and really needs his brother. But what plays out is more an act of betrayal and deception with the good son willing to risk everything for a price.

This is one of those stories that once you start it you can’ t put it down. You can just feel that something is coming although everything is calm now. It’s about soldiers in WW II who leave camp because they can’t stand having to shoot the prisoners. But what happens when they find a Jew hiding in the woods? The meal they share and the final decision they make will leaving you thinking about the book long after.

This is an amazing book! It has wonderful characters, a lot of action and adventure, and a awesome plot! Please read and enjoy!

This is an interesting book. It’s one of those books where a lot is left out, but the book is richer for that. Here is a place where your imagination is in charge. A father and daughter become healers in a small town. The townspeople trust them as they are successful, but you will not believe what it is that they do to get them better. But when the daughter becomes a young woman, she wants something else, and everything is changed forever.

I am mesmerized by Hanif Abdurraqib's way with words. Beautiful sentence structures of aching feelings on love and loss and what it means to live. Beautiful tapestry of memoir, anecdotes, basketball, and culture.

Loved it!

Although some of the references in her funny stories are dated, I had no difficulty finding her humor to be as witty as it was years ago.

set on a beach. Young woman is abused by her husband. She runs away faking her death. She ends up on this magical island. She often goes to the beach . Meeting new friends , starting a business and finding love.

Fun beach read to end the summer!

This book was full of surprises! Upon returning to their home after what should have been a vacation to reset their marriage, Iris and Gabriel find their close friend, Laure, in their house. Laure has discovered that her husband has a child that she nor he ever knew about, and Laure asks to stay while she sorts out her life. A tangled web is weaved between the characters, with more links between them adding to the drama already facing them, not only because of Pierre's adultery and now silence, but also because of the secret that Gabriel has been keeping- the true final words of a teenager that Gabriel found in the quarry, on death's doorstep. As more secrets are uncovered that link the characters together, more deaths occur. What other secrets are Laure, Iris, and Gabriel hiding, where is Pierre, and what does the gardener have to do with any of this? Full of shocking twists, I couldn't put this book down and was truly surprised by the end!