No woman is ever ready to care for a sick parent or to watch her daughter grow up and live on her own. But in "Necessary Places", Anna Donoghue has to confront both inevitable realities at once. After enduring a quiet but emotionally... Read More

Few parasites are as ugly as the tapeworm, with its suckers and hooks, proglottids budding off its head and neck, and the ability to grow thirty-two feet long. But nobody could seriously expect anything that lives in the human intestine... Read More

“Why it says to the world what the world wants to hear: that nothing goes better with depravity than vanity,” claims the narrator of "Persecution". Like the author’s debut, The Worst Intentions, the vanity of the Italian... Read More

Summer camps and boarding schools are ideal settings for fiction; the removal of parents from the equation expands the possibilities significantly. That’s Not a Feeling, by Dan Josefson, combines that isolated sense of setting—The... Read More

It’s mid-August of 1953, and fourteen-year-old Larry Carstairs and friend and classmate Andy Dellums have just arrived at Boy Scout Camp Greavy, near Traverse City, Michigan. With any luck at all, Larry figures, he’ll get to stay an... Read More

When her mother’s second cousin, the cultured Linus Lancaster, asks for fourteen-year-old Ginny’s hand in marriage early in "Kind One", Ginny eagerly accepts. Bored with her farm, her parents, and her limited prospects in the... Read More

“It didn’t matter to Ray if they were for or against the war. He just couldn’t take listening to someone who hadn’t been there. They didn’t belong to the same fraternity, the one that had taken his youth and made him bitter... Read More

Nancy Lyn Sullivan firmly establishes a place for herself within the genre of magical realism in her novel "Wayfaring Stranger". Readers will be delighted with this well-written offering and will enjoy traveling with its likable main... Read More