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Cursed Daughters Book – Cursed Women but Unstoppable Hope
Cursed Daughters is a dark, witty, Lagos-set family saga about Monife, Ebun, and Eniiyi—three women bound by a supposed love-curse…
Next Time Will Be Our Turn Review – Moving, Not Maudlin
Families love to say “we did it all for you,” but what if that love demands you erase yourself? In…
The Perfect Marriage Analysis — Powerful Themes Decoded
First published in 2020 and since re-edited for a 2024/2025 collector’s edition, Jeneva Rose’s breakout thriller The Perfect Marriage has…
The Land in Winter (2024) Summary: a Moving And Must-read Book
When a patient dies on your watch and the country freezes to a halt, how do you keep a marriage,…
Flashlight by Susan Choi: Complex, Heartbreaking Portraits
Grief scrambles memory, and Flashlight by Susan Choi shows how a family spends decades trying to see in the dark.…
Motherland Julia Ioffe: Definitive, Unflinching History
Motherland by Julia Ioffe is the feminist history of modern Russia I wish I’d had years ago—a book that solves…
ENTERTAINMENT
Pretty Woman 1990 Review: Fairy…
What makes a corporate raider and a Hollywood Boulevard sex worker the beating heart of a modern fairy tale? Pretty…
Love and Death (1975): The…
What do you call a comedy that quotes Dostoyevsky like a stand-up routine and turns pacifism into slapstick? For me,…
Conquering the Unconquerable: How Manjhi…
What does it mean to be truly unstoppable? Is it a quality reserved for mythic heroes and legendary figures, or…
