Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share their mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. – Barbara Ellis

“The Tokyo Suite,” by Giovanna Madalosso (Europa Editions, 2025)

An exploration of the meaning of family, motherhood, identity and, ultimately, the moral life. An immigrant is offered a boatload of money and a freshly renovated suite (called “the Tokyo suite”) by a rich, two-career family in São Paulo, Brazil, to become a live-in nanny for the couple’s young daughter. The woman accepts the position, but she ends up losing her marriage and her own chance for motherhood. H

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