. Southgate, Martha. Third Girl from the Left. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth). [View title on Goodreads.com] Review by Tiphanie Yanique The running metaphor of Martha Southgate’s latest novel is the movies: from the Dorothy Dandridge films that one character frequents, to the blaxploitation flicks another acts in, to the [...]

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Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals. New York, NY: Scribner, 2008. 336 pp. $14.00 (paper). [View Title on Goodreads.com] The phrase that best sums up Aryn Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals, comes toward its very end: “Desert is land that cannot be owned, cannot be controlled . . .” (pg. 304). And even [...]

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