Tag: female empowerment

• Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment is Visceral and Has Teeth

  With the summer sun making its appearance, the heat of the day drawing out the fatigue from my bones, and the long invigilating hours making themselves known, I have found myself drifting to shorter reads to keep my brain stimulated. I don’t usually read literary fiction or women’s fiction, but The Days of Abandonment has…

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  November 14, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Foreign Lit, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Marjan Kamali’s The Lion Women of Tehran Makes My Heart Swell

  The Lion Women of Tehran is Marjan Kamali’s newest release and I cannot contain my excitement. I fell in love with The Stationery Shop and have been awaiting another book from her since I closed the back cover, unwilling to let the smells and senses of food and cooking from my mind. The Lion Women…

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  November 18, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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