Author Archives: Andrea Y. Griffith

 Okay, Great House this is not. Eh on most of the stories. The first story in the collection features the fictional town of Templeton that is also the setting of Groff's first novel, The Monsters of Templeton. Which I loved. Wonderful, funny, weird novel. Very Lorrie Moore. So maybe skip Delicate, Edible Birds? I doContinue reading “Week 12/52: Delicate, Edible Birds by Lauren Groff”

Now this is my kind of novel. You have to work for it a little. Great House follows four disparate characters in eight chapters that seem to be connected by more than a large, looming desk but it isn't until the very end of the novel that the connection becomes clear. Krauss writes of loss,Continue reading “Week 11/52: Great House by Nicole Krauss.”

Okay, I have been meaning to read A New Kind of Christian forever ago but then I read it and basically, I might as well have read it before as most of the content — Christianity in the post-modern world — has been covered elsewhere over the years. It felt ten years old (and itContinue reading “Week 10/52: A New Kind of Christian by Brian McClaren”

  The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall was a Powell's Indiespensable selection that I just didn't get around to reading last year. Four wives + 28 children + economic hardship = complicated. And then maybe we should add another wife to the mix? Somehow along the line I began to care about this messy clan.Continue reading “Week 9/52: The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall”