Category: Family

Review – Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles

  Synopsis On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey […]

Review – Goyhood by Reuven Fenton

  Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Georgia, Mayer Belkin, a Talmud scholar married into a prestigious Brooklyn rabbinical family, faces a shocking revelation after his mother’s death: he and his twin brother aren’t actually Jewish. Traumatized, Mayer decides to convert, facing a week-long wait for the earliest appointment. In the interim, the twins embark on […]

Review – The Quince Project by Jessica Parra

  Synopsis Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister’s quinceañera, all of Cas’s plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it as the perfect opportunity to learn every […]