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...
The Drowning House
Clare is a tortured soul. Through one of life’s accidents and no one’s fault her precious daughter is dead and it appears likely her marriage is failing as her husband is recovering from the loss and she is not. But he had completed his task, delivered his burden to wherever it is old sorrows go. While I had barely started. I was beginning to think that grieving the loss of my ... Read More...
Parlor Games
You might know her as May, Pauline, Baroness, or Florence but this is one woman who gets around, much to the reader’s delight, in Maryka Biaggio’s debut novel, Parlor Games. Born May Dugas in Menominee, Michigan, this is a young lady who determined early on that the world was what she wanted and what she would have, despite the fact that her family is poor and it’s the 1890s ... Read More...
Ashenden: A Novel
Ashenden is the story of a home in England. Actually, it is an estate as it encompasses thousands of acres. It is inherited in 2010 by Charlie and Ros Minton from their aunt. What follows is a story that, as it covers over 200 years, unfolds with the same stately grace as the house itself, for the house is as imbued with meaning and life as the people who lived in it. After ... Read More...
Y: A Novel by Marjorie Celona
In my head, late at night, I draft letters to my mother and my father. I say everything I want to say, everything that needs to be said. In my head I am so eloquent. Abandoned on the steps of a YMCA Shannon is destined to become a foster care statistic. She is an unusual child with special needs due to her mother’s drug use before her birth. By the time she is five she has ... Read More...
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