Book Reviews Archive

Book Review: The Cloud Pavilion

Posted on December 8, 2011 | No Comments
Laura Joh Rowland has wowed me with another of her stories. I was interested in reading The Cloud Pavilion because of...
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Book Review: Peony in Love by Lisa See

Posted on October 17, 2011 | No Comments
Peony, the protagonist in Peony in Love, is a pampered sixteen year old when the reader meets her. She is sequestered...
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Book Review: We Want for our sisters what we want for ourselves

Posted on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Patricia Dixon-Spear’s book analyzes African American relationships outside of the confines of European-Atlantic cultural norms. The first two chapters lay the...
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Book Review: The Association of Foreign Spouses

Posted on September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ghana provides a vivid, if sometimes chaotic setting for this second novel by Marilyn Heward Mills. The main characters are four...
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Book Review: Hair Products 101 by Chicoro

Posted on August 28, 2011 | No Comments
Black women who have turned their backs on relaxers and weaves and who embrace their afro textured hair are women who...
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Book Review: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Posted on August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
In most of the Caribbean novels I have read, the narrator is a son of the soil. In The White Woman...
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Book Review: Grow it by Chicoro

Posted on July 23, 2011 | No Comments
Sometimes the best advice comes not from experts and professionals but from someone who has trodden a path and gained experience,...
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Book Review: The politics of black women’s hair by Althea Prince

Posted on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
This book offers a refreshing insight into the politics surrounding black women’s hair and a moving collection of writings from women across the
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Book Review: The science of black hair by Audrey Davis-Sivasothy

Posted on July 21, 2011 | No Comments
The Science of Black Hair lives up to the promise of its title in every way – because it is an...
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Book Review: Still not easy being British by Tariq Modood

Posted on June 27, 2011 | No Comments
This book is the sequel to the collection of essays in Not easy being British published in 1992. If you have...
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Book Review: Nigger for Life by Neal Hall, M.D

Posted on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Nigger for Life is an insightful anthology of poems that both document and articulate Hall’s experience as a black man in...
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Book Review: The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Posted on March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Many books have clever strap-lines, usually claiming their contents will either change your life or be the best thing you will read this year. Often this
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