The Secret Life of Bees is a novel written by award-winning author Sue Monk Kidd. Lily Owens, a young white girl living in the South in 1964, is the main character of the book. She was raised by her abusive...
Even if you’ve never heard of Haruki Murakami, he’s definitely a name to remember. The Japanese author has won critical acclaim (for example, he was almost in the running for the 2020 Nobel Prize in...
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, can be recognized as one of the first and exceptional feminist works from the 19th Century. The story focuses on the beautiful Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother who...
Nice White Parents is the perfect title for this fascinating investigation into America’s public education system. Told over five hour-long episodes (but I swear, the series truly felt...
When Celeste Ng’s novel, Little Fires Everywhere, released in 2017, some might comment that it set the fiction world ablaze. The iconically minimalist, turquoise cover became a familiar sight at everyone’s...
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with two of Visitation’s very own juniors, Wini Bettenburg and Ellie McConville to discuss the art of coffee. In December 2018, Wini and Ellie created a VSCO...
Seven years ago, before I became a self-proclaimed movie snob, I was stuck in a genre: the superhero genre. Well, in truth, “stuck” is not the phrase I would use to describe my previous situation;...
Back with her second novel after The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas hits the ground running with On the Come Up, a funny, hopeful, and deeply impactful story of a young rapper fighting through poverty,...
Amor Towles’ novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, opens with a map drawing of Moscow, Russia, in the year 1922. An inset map focuses on the Theatre Square, a small area encompassing a few city...
In America, race is an endlessly controversial subject, but literature is able to offer another perspective besides our own. One such novel, Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, became a major motion picture...
