Leah Greenblatt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Leah Greenblatt

A New Yorker takes her identity crisis — along with her love for animals — abroad...Grodstein...has a knack for breezy, mordant observations about midlife disconnection and discovery.

Leah Greenblatt

In Britney Spears's memoir, she's stronger than ever... It’s nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy for and real outrage on behalf of Spears.

Leah Greenblatt

#Eileen is a little bit Carol a little bit Mare of Easttown and very much dark af Ottessa Moshfegh I had a great time #Sundance

Leah Greenblatt

As a travelogue and a mood piece, The Continental Affair is undeniably beguiling and transportive; as a mystery, it drifts.

Leah Greenblatt

It’s all richly imagined, reflexively neurotic and frequently quite dazzling... This is a book of warty, messy things, intractable and strange — but stumbling, maybe, toward a state of grace.

Leah Greenblatt

“Council” weaves a dense, prismatic portrait of three generations irrevocably altered by the “re-education” of Native American children at U.S. government-run boarding schools — and bound together by the various dolls that bring them comfort and companionship.

Leah Greenblatt

Attenberg [writes]... with wry, streamlined wit and almost ruthless efficiency, distilling the essence of her characters and sometimes sealing their fate in the same paragraph. Even minor players are so sharply sketched that they feel immediately familiar...

Leah Greenblatt

Once again, Keane mines the family strife and secrecy that made her absorbing 2019 debut Ask Again, Yes one of the bigger book-club breakouts of the last several years.

Leah Greenblatt

Alam has both a golden ear and a gimlet eye for the Sturm und Drang of the city's ever-shifting social's strata; a way of slyly dinging its self-delusions and virtue-signalling without turning cruel or petty.

Leah Greenblatt

At times the books reads like a fairy tale or a fable, but those usually come with lessons or at least some kind of moral imperative... I mean, you have cannibalism and plagues, dead lambs and prodigal babies...like something from the Bible, minus all the judgment.