Books by Karin Tanabe and Complete Book Reviews
Karin Tanabe. Washington Square, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9559-5
Hildy Johnson would recognize a kindred spirit in 28-year-old Adrienne Brown, a Beltway-bred, New York–trained reporter who sacrifices sleep, sanity, and sex to feed the wonky digital/paper beast the Capitolist—or “the List” as its rabidly ambitious
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Karin Tanabe. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-23147-5
Tanabe (The Gilded Years) transports readers to the beauty and danger of 1930s Indochina in this stirring, elegant romance. American-born Jessie Lesage leaves Paris with her French husband, Victor, and their daughter, Lucie, in 1933 so that Victor,...
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Karin Tanabe. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-23150-5
Tanabe (A Hundred Suns) returns with a layered and engrossing Cold War historical. In 1954, Rina Edgeworth is a surgeon’s wife and full-time mother living on the Upper East Side, her free-spirited life as a French translator for the United Nations a
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Karin Tanabe. St. Martin’s, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-28046-6
In the canny latest from Tanabe (A Hundred Suns), a woman navigates love and friendship in cutthroat 1970s Hollywood. Narrator Beatrice Dupont befriends Hawaiian native Kai de la Faire, whom she describes as “a beautiful man with a big personality,”
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