Clarise Quintero

The Scapegoat by Sara Davis, FSG, 2021, $26.00, 210 pages

 

Murder mysteries often go by a formula. Somebody is killed, the protagonist goes on a search for their killer, stumbling upon multiple red herrings and tripping up on the clues. …

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, 2020, $27.00, 288 pages.

 

“At times, my life now feels so at odds with the religious teachings of my childhood that I wonder what the little girl I once was would think of the …