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Heart Berries: A Memoir

May 9, 2018

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It’s hard, as a reviewer, to say you loved a book or felt deeply touched by it, but that you’re not sure you understood a lot of it. And by understand, I mean, literally, the facts. This is the case ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, Counterpoint, memoir, mental health, women

The Widow Nash: A Novel

August 1, 2017

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  Call me vulgar, but when a book opens with a young woman, a father who’s dying of syphilis, missing money and a murderous ex-fiancé, I’m all in. It’s the early 1900s, the young woman is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, book clubs, Counterpoint, historical fiction, mystery, women

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