Book Review – Alone in the House of My Heart, by Kari Gunter-Seymour
Alone in the House of My Heart is a collection of poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour, poet laureate of Ohio, director of Women of Appalachia Project, …
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Book Review – Paradais, by Fernanda Melchor
Paradais is a novella-length story by Fernanda Melchor (previously short-listed for the International Booker Prize for Hurricane Season) that takes place in a gated community …
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Book Review – The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham
The Boys from Biloxi is John Grisham’s latest. The story is set on the coast of Mississippi, where corruption, gambling, and prostitution reign in a …
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Book Review – The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait is the latest novel by award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell (most recently, for Hamnet). The story is set in the mid to late …
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Continue ReadingBook Review – And Yet, by Kate Baer
And Yet is the second collection of poems by best-selling author Kate Baer. The book jacket characterizes it as “traditional poetry” (I think that’s code …
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