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Book Review — A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea January 12, 2018

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel “A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea” by Dina Nayeri is a moving, haunting novel about a girl growing up in Iran around the time of the revolution. Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are wealthy daughters of a man who owns a rice farm in Iran,…

BOOK REVIEW: East of the Sun December 17, 2015

East of the Sun: A Novel East of the Sun by Julia Gregson is a sweeping, historical romance. I think I enjoyed it mostly because it outlined a time and place I don’t think of much: in the 1920s at the end of English colonial period in India. It follows Viva Holloway, who sort of…