by Aseem Gupta | Jun 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 59 MinutesJohn Grisham’s The Firm begins with an offer that appears almost absurdly generous. Mitchell “Mitch” McDeere is about to graduate near the top of his Harvard Law School class, has an accounting background, has passed the CPA examination, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 10, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 57 MinutesJohn Grisham’s A Time to Kill begins with a crime so brutal that the reader’s instinctive sense of justice is engaged before the legal system has a chance to speak. When ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is kidnapped, raped, beaten, and left for dead...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 6, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 49 MinutesAugusten Burroughs’s A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, published by St. Martin’s Press in 2008, reaches backward from the chaotic adolescence depicted in Running with Scissors to the childhood that came before it. Its central figure...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 4, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 48 MinutesAlbert Camus’s The Stranger, first published by Gallimard in 1942, is one of those rare novels whose apparent simplicity creates rather than resolves its difficulty. Its plot can be stated in a few sentences: Meursault, a clerk living in...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 2, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 69 MinutesThomas Keneally’s A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia tells the story of one of the strangest state-building experiments of the eighteenth century. Britain did not initially send a conventional colony of farmers,...
