Another Monday and I’m back with a second 5-star fabulous book. W. S. Winslow’s debut novel, The Northern Reach, is a compact novel, set on the northern coast of Maine in the kind of small towns that depend on summer vacationers and fishing for their survival. What begins with one mother mired in grief over a son lost at sea ebbs and flows over three generations of families as ... Read More...
We Run the Tides
I'm not sure it's an actual publishing trend for 2021, but it's fairly unusual for me to read three novels on the same subject in one year. In this case, it's private girls' schools—always fascinating to me, but to the general public? I guess so. In January, there was The Divines and this month, All Girls. The final novel in this trifecta is today’s review: We Run the Tides by ... Read More...
All Girls: A Novel by Emily Layden
Sometimes a book’s title is all you need to know about the book. This is clearly the case in Emily Layden’s debut novel, All Girls. Set at the Atwater School, a prestigious girls’ boarding school in New England, the novel has a provocative beginning. As girls and their families drive to the school for the start of fall semester they see hundreds of yard signs along the way ... Read More...
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Towards the end of last year, the only reading that worked for me was fast paced thrillers. More plot, more action, less literary. This year is taking a turn (or a return) to the fiction that’s always drawn me in, the kind where the words matter more than anything else. Laird Hunt’s latest, Zorrie, epitomizes this style; the power of simplicity. Zorrie is a young girl in ... Read More...
Landslide: A Novel by Susan Conley
When you live in northern coast of Maine you accept your husband will very likely be a fisherman and your life will revolve around water. This is the case for Jill, with her family going so far as to live on a small island. For the most part they’ve made it work, even with Kit being gone for months on end and their having two teenage boys. But now a boat explosion has left him ... Read More...
No Heaven for Good Boys
In Senegal, young boys are often sent from their rural villages to Dakar, a city where they have opportunities for religious and secular education not found at home. Most often it begins when the child is ten, but in the case of seven-year-old Ibrahimah when Marabout Ahmed saves his life, his father, Idrissa, agrees to let the holy man take his son and begin his education ... Read More...
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