by Aseem Gupta | Aug 13, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Partner, originally published in 1997, begins where many crime novels would end. Patrick Lanigan, once a partner in a respectable Biloxi law firm, has already disappeared, been declared dead, and taken $90 million with him. Four years later, after...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 10, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Solomon Northup begins Twelve Years a Slave with a fact that governs everything that follows: he was born free. He had spent more than thirty years as a citizen of New York, had a wife and children, earned money through several kinds of skilled work, traveled freely,...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 6, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mark Manson’s Love Is Not Enough begins with a proposition that sounds almost deliberately unromantic: loving someone does not mean that the relationship is good, healthy, sustainable, or even worth continuing. People can love partners they cannot trust,...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 3, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Runaway Jury begins as a familiar legal thriller: a widow sues a major tobacco company after her husband dies of lung cancer, and both sides prepare for a trial that could have consequences far beyond one family. The deeper conflict, however, is not...
