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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Forest Dark” By Nicole Krauss

Reading Nicole Krauss reminds me of the “Sound of Music” lyric: how do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you explain a literary...

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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

By now you have heard this second novel of the lovely Celese Ng is already on the best seller list. While not as powerful as the first,...

Two by One: Two Recent Fictions by Mary Gordon

  By Randy Kraft   I should say five fictions, because The Liar’s Wife, published in 2014, is a collection of four novellas,...

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OC Book Blog: “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid

By Randy Kraft   I’m a little late on this one. The buzz began the moment the novel was published and for good reason. Mohsin...

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Truths in Fiction X2

Two novels, two distinctly different writers, and two very different subjects, yet both get to the most profound human truths and both tell...