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Book summaries with tea or coffee pairings.

  • The Bluest Eye

    Title: The Bluest Eye Author: Toni Morrison Genres: African American fiction, YA Summary (from publisher): Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that Read more

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    Title: The Left Hand of Darkness Author: Ursula LeGuin Genres: Science Fiction Summary (from publisher): A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he Read more

  • the color purple

    Title: The Color Purple Author: Alice Walker Genres: African American Fiction Summary (from publisher): Depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Tea/Coffee: Lemon balm tea. Review: N/A. Due to Read more

  • one hundred years of solitude

    Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude Author: Gabriel Garcia Márquez Genres: Latin American Fiction Summary (from publisher): The epic tale of the Buendía family, navigating through seven generations of love, war, and magical realism in the fictional town of Macondo. Tea/Coffee: Café de Olla (recipe here) Read more

  • Frankenstein

    Title: Frankenstein Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Genres: Horror Summary (from publisher): Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Tea/Coffee: Ginger tea. Review: Read more

  • The Invisible Guardian

    Title: The Invisible Guardian Author: Dolores Redondo Genres: Multicultural Detectives-Fiction, International Mystery, Mystery & Thrillers Summary (from publisher): When the body of a teenaged girl is found on a riverbank in a remote area, the crime appears all too similar to a murder committed only months prior, igniting the worst fears of the small community Read more

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