Jo Kuan, the protagonist and titular Downstairs Girl, is a Chinese American teenager living in Atlanta, Georgia just after the end of the U.S. Civil War.

I love that they are promoting individual voices. Jury is still out on supporting the platform, though.

This time last year, I made what I thought was a simple (and easy!) new year's resolution to read a total of 12 books in 2023.

And we're back again! Here with the perennial goal of reading more books. This year, I'm going with what I hope will be an easy goal: Twelve books, one a month. As a writer and lifelong bookworm, it's embarrassing to admit that this is

For those of you out there who are wondering how I could not manage just two books a month when everything closed down and we were all "stuck at home."