Lucas Stoffel

Crying in H Mart Book Review: I knew this book was going to wreck me. You don't pick up a memoir called Crying in H Mart expecting to leave emotionally intact. But I didn't expect it to wreck me this specifically, this precisely, in ways I'm still thinking about weeks later.

Born a Crime Book Review: The title of Trevor Noah's memoir is not a metaphor. Under South Africa's apartheid laws, relationships between Black and white people were illegal. His mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is Xhosa. His father, Robert, is Swiss-German. Trevor's very existence was a crime punishable by prison. His mother could have been jailed for having him. When they walked down the street together, she had to pretend he wasn't hers.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" Book Review: V.E. Schwab has written a lot of books, but this is the one that feels like it was living inside her for years, waiting to come out. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is the story of a young woman in 1714 France who makes a desperate deal with a god of darkness: she gets to live forever, but no one will ever remember her. The moment she leaves a room, she's gone from their minds. She can't be photographed, can't sign her name..