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...
by BlogEditor | Apr 28, 2022 | Book Reviews
Kids in America by Liz Prato FollowFollowFollow Kids in America: Essays on Gen Xby Liz Prato Santa Fe Writers Project (June 2022Paperback, 210 pagesISBN-10: 1951631250ISBN-13: 978-1951631253 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a quote from the Class of 1984...
by BlogEditor | Apr 25, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Losing Art An excerpt from LOSING ART, a memoir by Patricia Feinman FollowFollowFollow I got as close to Art as I could, resting one arm on either side of him, without letting any of my weight lean on his emaciated body. I looked into his face. It’s okay, my love, I...