Review: Uncle Joe's Muse By Micah Thorp
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- May 25, 2022
Summary: Two brothers, now both financially successful adults, grew up thinking that their father died in Vietnam. But Mom was always cagey on the subject of their paternity. After her death, the two brothers take DNA tests. Phillip learns that his father was Irish; Spencer’s father was southern European. The two brothers, who were raised thinking
READ MORESummary: In the late 1800s, two German Jewish immigrants marry and settle in Leadville, Colorado. Their life wasn’t easy in the rough mining town. As their children grew, some stayed in Leadville, while others moved to find the comforts of big city life in Denver. A few didn’t survive, leaving their families emotionally scarred and in
READ MORESynopsis Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani Muslim man, meet and fall in love in Dubai. They marry and move to the US where they start their family. Then Rashid’s father is killed while at a wedding near the Afghan border, in a US drone attack. Rashid flies back to Pakistan for the
READ MORECopper Sky — The Plot Welcome to early 20th-century Butte, Montana: a small and depressing mining town. Men work themselves to death in the mines or die from consumption if they’re lucky enough to live that long. Married women slave away in their homes, bereft of any rights. Working girls are outcasts and eventually end
READ MOREThe Irrationalist — The Plot Who would want to murder the world’s most famous philosopher? Turns out: nearly everyone. In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher. With much trepidation but not much choice, he arrived in Stockholm in mid-October. Shortly thereafter he was dead. Pneumonia, they said.
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