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Booth: A Novel by Karen Joy Fowler

Catherine — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:15:39 +0000

I’m not a Civil War buff so have never paid much attention to the time period, but when I saw Karen Joy Fowler had a new novel out, I knew I wanted to read it regardless of subject matter. Which is how I found myself immersed in the serpentine history of one of America’s most […]

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Fates and Traitors

Catherine — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:00:42 +0000

Fates and Traitors is a novel about John Wilkes Booth as told from the vantage point of the three women who were most important in his life and one near stranger who let him into her life. There is his mother, Mary Ann Booth; his sister, Asia; and Lucy Hale, his secret fiancé. Mary Surratt is […]

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Catherine — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:57:03 +0000

Witty, somber, irreverent—just a few of the words I’d use to describe George Saunders’s new novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. And because I know you’re wondering: bardo is the Buddhist concept of the interim place the soul goes before moving into its next reincarnation. In this case, the soul belongs to Willie Lincoln, Abraham […]

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The Second Mrs Hockaday

Catherine — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 08:20:26 +0000

Placidia is seventeen when she meets Major Hockaday and when he proposes that very same day she says yes. That he is a widower and has a small son makes little difference to her. It’s 1865 and given the war there’s no point in waiting for a proper courtship and wedding. In fact, the […]

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