Well, the honest answer to “what Michael Phelps and I have in common” is, practically nothing. He’s a young, strong, elite athlete with a whole slew of resources at his disposal. I’m a dumpy, almost-past-middle-aged woman with a teeny-tiny safety net that I was able to cobble together over my 30 years in the work [….]
LitStack Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Published on :Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel Alfred A. Knopf Publication Date: August 12, 2014 ISBN 978-0-385-35210-9 Once upon a time, there were five very close friends who attended public high school in Nagoya, Japan – three boys and two girls. They did everything together: volunteer work at [….]
LitStack Review: On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
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LitStack Review: Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
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LitStack Review: Bodies of Water by T. Greenwood
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