What did you read this year?
Joe’s
average rating for
2024
3.5
3.5
Welcome Home, Stranger follows successful environmental journalist Rachel Calloway as she returns to her childhood home on the occasion of her emotionally abusive mother's death.
Rachel copes with guilt over her mother's death, a resentful sister, a lustful ex-boyfriend, a divorce from her gay husband, the onslaught of menopause, the possibility of losing her job because she's "old", and her own mortality.
It's a short, breezy character driven nov ...more
Rachel copes with guilt over her mother's death, a resentful sister, a lustful ex-boyfriend, a divorce from her gay husband, the onslaught of menopause, the possibility of losing her job because she's "old", and her own mortality.
It's a short, breezy character driven nov ...more
The Member of the Wedding tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams as she simultaneously experiences the growing pangs of puberty, and an existential crisis triggered by her older brother’s announcement that he is getting married.
Frankie’s mother died during childbirth and her father is an inattentive parent, so Frankie wiles away the hot summer days in the kitchen of her house playing spades and eating soul food with her housekeeper ...more
Frankie’s mother died during childbirth and her father is an inattentive parent, so Frankie wiles away the hot summer days in the kitchen of her house playing spades and eating soul food with her housekeeper ...more