By page three of Swimming at Night we have already learned of the death of Katie Greene’s sister, Mia. From that point onward, there is little opportunity to stop and catch your breath, as author Lucy Clarke neatly propels the action forward in this, her debut novel, where the mysteries pile up almost immediately. Mia was in Bali, not a country she was supposed to be in, and ... Read More...
The Orchardist
It’s already been said but bears repeating: Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist is a stunning debut; the story of a plot of land and the people who shape it while it shapes them. When William Talmadge is nine he and his sister, Elsbeth settle into a remote, rural area of north-central Washington state with their mother. She has no explanation in choosing this location but, even at ... Read More...
Wise Men
In Wise Men, we meet Arthur Wise the man who created class action lawsuits when he sued an airline company after their flight crashed in the 1950s. From being a brash, rude, arrogant and penniless lawyer he went to a multi-millionaire who created a livelihood first out of suing the airlines and then by working for them. Wise Men begins when Arthur, first flush with success, ... Read More...
No One is Here Except All of Us
That one world is at war does nothing to interrupt the patient churning of peaceful years someplace far away. There are so many kinds of fiction and so many ways an author can draw a reader in. Some appeal to the masses and write a quick easy read and some require more from their readers. No One is Here Except All of Us is a unique book and so, not easy to review. It’s the ... Read More...
Frances and Bernard
In today’s world of email, texting, and skype there is an instant gratification element to communicating that blunts its finer points, especially in relationships. It is with great delight, then, to read Frances and Bernard, Carlene Bauer’s fictional look at the friendship between two writers, using the relationship between Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell as its basis. The ... Read More...
Autobiography of Us
For all my careful work I had never learned to mask the dread I felt at every turn…fear that any of one of my many failings would be discovered and I would be sent, like an orphan from one of my childhood novels, back to the dull world I’d inhabited before Alex came along. Rebecca and Alexandra meet in high school when Alexandra is the new girl. Despite being ... Read More...
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