The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson audiobook review – a Caribbean child’s-eye view of 60s Bradford (opens on The Guardian)
The author captures the comedy and cruelty in this tenderly written coming-of-age tale
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2026
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Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip (opens on The Guardian)
This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice
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Dèy by Edwidge Danticat review – motherhood and trauma in Miami (opens on The Guardian)
The first novel in over a decade from the acclaimed Haitian-American author lacks the power of earlier works
