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The Have-Nots

At the outset, I didn’t particularly care for this book. Yet, as a work of fiction, The Have-Nots bears no great deficiencies and has, in fact, a certain charm to it. In spite of this, or, perhaps, because of it, I can’t love this book. Perhaps my heart is too small to embrace the multitude of characters, or perhaps my ...

Latest Review: The Have-Nots

Our latest review is of Katharina Hacker’s The Have-Nots, which won the German Book Prize for 2006 and was recently published by Europa Editions. Jeff Waxman—who also reviewed Elias Khoury’s Yalo at Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago and is currently very obsessed with Lost. (Who ...