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Three Mississippian brothers abandon their Confederate posts, only to encounter fresh miseries on the road home, in Philip Fracassi’s riveting horror novel "Sarafina". Ethan, a twin and the youngest of three brothers, tires of the...
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by Michelle Anne Schingler
In today’s conversation, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler coaxes Bar Fridman-Tell into revealing a fascinating source of anxiety, one that Bar shares with other principled writers who retell myths and folk tales while striving to...
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by Kathy Young
Mount Verity / Therese Bohman / Marlaine Delargy, translator / Other Press / Softcover $17.99 (224pp) / 978-1-63542-566-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel Mount Verity, a childhood...
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Southern Gothic meets feminist, supernatural horror in Allison Cundiff’s thrilling novel "The Mysterious Women of J Road", in which a gifted woman raised on the righteous side of an Ozarks divide is forced toward self-reckoning. The...
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A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While...
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Anna Nerkagi’s subtle but powerful novel "White Moss" captures generational shifts among Siberia’s indigenous Nenets people. Among the Nenets, nomadic reindeer herders in the polar tundra, little is easy. Traditions clash with the...
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by Meredith Grahl Counts
It takes a village to help an LGBTQ+ teenager come out—in addition to a robust bookshelf. Fortunately, those human and literary resources are becoming easier to find. Unfortunately, we still live in a world where condemnation and...
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by Kathy Young
Beatrice the Sixteenth / Radium Age Series / Irene Clyde / Lucy Sante, contributor / The MIT Press / Softcover $19.95 (344pp) / 978-0-262-05162-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Irene Clyde’s classic science fiction novel...
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