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We Are Water: A Novel

October 25, 2013

we are water

How a work can be solid and delicate, earthy and of air is a mystery but describes Wally Lamb’s novel, We Are Water. Ostensibly it is the story of Annie Oh—wife, mother, artist and keeper of secrets, secrets that grow and beget other secrets, changing her life and the lives around her. When she is only five, she watches as her mother is swept away by a flood, along with her ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, literary, women

Beautiful Ruins

March 23, 2013

Beautiful Ruins

In a remote village on the coast of Italy the young owner of The Hotel Adequate View receives only the second American guest in the hotel’s history. She’s surrounded by mystery but appears to have come from Rome where the filming of Cleopatra is still ongoing. Little does Pasquale Tursi know it, but his life is about to be changed forever. Beautiful Ruins is an expansive story ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Harper, historical fiction, Italy

The Orchardist

March 6, 2013

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...

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