Our Cut of Salt is Palestinian American author Deena Helm’s first novel and is a haunted house story about the traumatic effect of the 1948 Nakba on three generations of Palestinian women. Our Cut of Salt has the potential to be a very good story, but the storytelling is unfortunately hampered by not-so-great writing.
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If you read every novel written by a prolific writer like Silvia Moreno-Garcia, there is always the possibility that you will not like everything they have written. I certainly have been less impressed with some of Moreno-Garcia’s books than others, but I guess I am still floating off the high of The Bewitching because I am disappointed that The Intrigue, her latest noir novel, is just an okay book.
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Exit Party is the latest novel by Emily St. John Mandel. I have previously mentioned loving Station Eleven and I enjoyed St. John Mandel’s last novel, Sea of Tranquility. Exit Party has an intriguing premise that hooked me from the start, but I have spent a lot of time since finishing this novel ruminating over what it means to really get any enjoyment out of it.
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