by Web Designer | Jul 28, 2022 | Minerva's Dispatch, News & Events
Mother of my Invention, 2021 Memoir Contest Winner FollowFollowFollow Our memoir contest winner from last year, Janice Airhart, named her memoir Mother of my Invention. Janice takes seriously what her father once told her: “You can be anything you want to be.” As a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 26, 2022 | Book Reviews
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich FollowFollowFollow The Sentenceby Louise Erdrich Harper Collins 2021$28.99ISBN: 978-0-06-267112-7 Book Review by Ariel Jennings It took me a very long time to read this novel because I knew it would challenge me in the most brutal of...
by BlogEditor | Jul 19, 2022 | Book Reviews
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes FollowFollowFollow Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Changeby Angela GarbesHarper WaveMay 2022ISBN-13 : 978-0062937360 Book Review by Jenna Hollenstein The day after I arrived in Sicily with my son—a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 5, 2022 | Book Reviews
Ashes to Justice by R.E.I.L. (Shaquetta Nelson) FollowFollowFollow Ashes to Justice by R.E.I.L. (Shaquetta Nelson) Book Review by Abby N. Lewis Nelson writes in the first sentence to the preface of her debut collection, “In these pages are my hidden truths, how I made...
by BlogEditor | Jun 27, 2022 | Book Reviews
Red Paint by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe FollowFollowFollow Red Paintby Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe Counterpoint (2022)$25.00 (hardcover)ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-414-7 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall When we found the tarot reader, it was meant to be light. The...
by BlogEditor | Jun 21, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Fat by Sarah Levine FollowFollowFollow Ten. The package of Oreos makes its way around the classroom, as do squeals from your classmates as they thank Jacob for convincing his mom to stop at Wawa to bring a snack for the class. You follow the bright blue package with...
by BlogEditor | May 27, 2022 | Book Reviews
A Burning by Megha Majumdar FollowFollowFollow A Burningby Megha Majumdar Vintage BooksJune 2021Paperback, 304 pagesISBN-13: 978-0593081259 Book Review by Ankita Rathour Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A Burning reads like a fictional tale and feels otherwise. Set in the...
by BlogEditor | May 19, 2022 | Book Reviews
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky FollowFollowFollow Hurricane GirlMarcy Dermansky Alfred A. KnopfJune 2022Hardcover, 240 pagesISBN-13: 978-0593320884 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens It has been a long time since I have flown through a book as quickly as I flew...
by BlogEditor | May 13, 2022 | Book Reviews
Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter by Noelle McCarthy FollowFollowFollow Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughterby Noelle McCarthy Penguin Books – NZMarch 2022Paperback, 272 pagesISBN-10: 014377610XISBN-13: 978-0143776109 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall “This is...
by BlogEditor | May 10, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Lost Time by Nancy Jorgensen FollowFollowFollow Two brides in my family never had sex. I wasn’t told their birth names. I knew them only as Sister Christine and Sister Hilarion. Born in the 1890s, they wore flowing black tunics, cinched by a coarse rope that dangled...
