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Semkoek rated Normal Women: 4 stars
Semkoek rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 5 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to …
Semkoek rated The Color Purple: 4 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by. Then her husband's lover, …
Semkoek rated Jonah's gourd vine: 4 stars
Jonah's gourd vine by Zora Neale Hurston
Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a …
Semkoek rated Motherthing: 5 stars
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself …
Semkoek rated Klara and the Sun: 5 stars
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …
Semkoek rated Things We Lost in the Fire: 4 stars
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
"A haunting collection of short stories all set in Argentina"
Twelve stories of ghosts, demons and wild women: of sharp-toothed …
Semkoek rated Her Body & Other Parties: 5 stars
Semkoek rated Time Shelter: 3 stars
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for …
Semkoek rated Diary of a Void: 4 stars
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi, Lucy North, David Boyd
Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. …
