Maureen Corrigan
'We Run The Tides' Pulls You Into The Rough Seas Of Female Adolescence
Maureen Corrigan says Vendela Vida's novel 'We Run the Tides' "is a tough and exquisite sliver of a short novel whose world I want to remain lost in — and at the same time am relieved to have outgrown."
'My Year Abroad' Is A Fun Excursion — Just A Little Light On Substance
My Year Abroad is Chang-rae Lee's new exuberant novel that takes readers on an excursion out of the New Jersey suburbs and across the Pacific into some of the more luxurious reaches of Asian megacities.
'Aftershocks' Is A Powerful Memoir Of A Life Upended — Then Pieced Back Together
Book critic Maureen Corrigan says Nadia Owusu's memoir is a classic "search for identity" story, one that's complicated by the fact that the ground beneath Owusu's feet is so unstable. Maureen says it's a well-wrought and powerful book.