Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
A timeless, terrifying mirror to reality. Chronicling Offred’s survival within a fundamentalist regime that treats fertile women as state property, this stream-of-consciousness narrative serves as a chilling, hyper-relevant cautionary tale on how quickly hard-won civil rights can be dismantled.
A brutal critique of corporate incarceration. Centering on two queer gladiators fighting for freedom in a privatized prison death match, the novel acts as a fierce indictment of the American carceral system.
Mean Girls meets The Craft in this surreal 5-star trip through the world of elite creative writing. Local author and Syracuse University professor Mona Awad crafts an unsettling, comical, and bizarre “fever dream” where a lonely grad student is pulled into a cult-like clique of “Bunnies.” It’s a masterful satire of academic obsession and the monstrous lengths we go to for belonging. Warning: Things are about to get weird.