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Ruby: A Novel

April 28, 2014

ruby

  Ephram Jennings has been in love with Ruby Bell since they met as children fishing in a lake near their hometown of Liberty, in east Texas. When Ruby returns to Liberty after escaping as a young ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Hogarth, magical realism, Southern life

Lookaway, Lookaway

August 21, 2013

lookaway lookaway

  I’ll do my best not to overindulge in Civil War metaphors but I tore through Lookaway Lookaway faster than Sherman went through Atlanta. Wilton Barnhardt has written an addictive novel of the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, humor, Southern life, St. Martin's Press

The Help

July 10, 2012

  Important preface to this review: I am one of those people who doesn’t do well when faced with exhortations to view/read something widely and unanimously praised. Call it childish or ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, historical fiction, Penguin Group, Southern life

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