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This Other Eden

Catherine — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:26:32 +0000

In 1911 there was a small island off the coast of Maine comprised of a group of families who were the descendants of the island’s original 1792 settlers—an escaped slave, his Irish wife, and later, other refugees from society. The island is still there, but its inhabitants are long gone. Paul Harding’s novel, This Other […]

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Free Range Reading: Tinkers

Catherine — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:07:38 +0000

Tinkers opens with George Crosby, lying on a bed in the living room of the home he built himself, as his mind swirls and flows between the reality of his family gathered to bid him goodbye to the most exquisite reminiscences on life itself and his place in its great tiled framework. …I will remain […]

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Enon

Catherine — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:23:05 +0000

They are a young couple who had a single child young and who lost the child in an instant of combustion and are straggling around their home in shock at the child’s death but nonetheless trying to spare each other in at least some slight degree the full blow of the end of their fragile […]

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