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by Barbara Hodge
Mudflowers / Aley Waterman / Rare Machines / Softcover $18.99 (230pp) / 978-1-4597-5152-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Aley Waterman’s striking novel Mudflowers, a woman finds love in the aftermath of her mother’s...
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by Michelle Anne Schingler
Misogyny. Alas, it didn’t have to play out that way. In this week’s interview, Nikki Marmery talks about a crucial period starting about 4000 BCE when patriarchy crept into the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia: “wherever it...
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In the superb autobiographical essays of "Otherwise", Julie Marie Wade illuminates sexual orientation and body image issues. Nine intricate pieces reflect on risk, bodily autonomy, gender roles, and poetry versus prose. A series of...
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While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her...
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by Meg Nola
Beth Kephart wants you to think about your love of books. What if your lifelong curled-up reverence for stories on bound pages is as much a matter of the texture, smell, and inky mottled mystery of sheeted wood pulp as it is the meaning...
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by Barbara Hodge
Beautiful Shining People / Michael Grothaus / Orenda Books / Softcover $16.99 (276pp) / 978-1-914585-64-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Michael Grothaus’s shimmering speculative novel Beautiful Shining People, an American...
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A sobering dispatch from a past marked by familiar prejudices, "The Trials of Madame Restell" is Nicholas L. Syrett’s consequential biography of a woman who defied changing norms to protect women’s health. Ann Trow—later known as...
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by Elaine Chiew
In Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s expansive short story collection, some form of craving—either literal or metaphysical—factors into every person’s tale. A woman who craved olives as a child is forever cursed to flashback through the...
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