The latest edition of “What Are You Reading?” features Janet Levine (W. Lanvale St.) sharing her take on Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, a compelling time-travel novel set in antebellum Maryland that confronts the harsh realities of slavery, as she prepares to reread Kamala Shamsie’s Home Fire. Meanwhile, Susan Haun (Wilson St.) discusses Thrity Umrigar’s The Museum of Failures—a heart-wrenching story recommended by a taxi driver in Medellín, Colombia—about a man returning to India to adopt a baby and uncover the hidden struggles of his estranged mother.