Diane Rehmbook recommendations

Diane Rehm on Love in the Time of Cholera
"About the romantic devotion one man has for a woman from his youth."

Diane Rehm on The Lying Life of Adults
"It’s the 1990s and we meet a teenager from a middle-class family, who learns the adults in her world are not to be trusted."

Diane Rehm on The Bluest Eye
"The story of a young girl growing up in the years following the Great Depression and who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless."

Diane Rehm on 1984
"Examines the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and government repression."

Diane Rehm on Klara and the Sun
"Set in a not-too-distant future where a young child must be schooled at home without classmates because of fragile health."

Diane Rehm on The Fire Next Time
"Was a national best seller and was seen as a voice for the emerging Civil Rights movement."

Diane Rehm on The Dutch House
"The story of two siblings whose mother abandons them as young children."