Book Review
Last Dance
Hanna Schroy’s graphic novel begins as principal dancer Miriam spins in the arms of her handsome partner, living the life she has dreamed of since her girlhood. The dream turns into a potentially career ending injury when she falls and...
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Lyrebird
In her lyric memoir "Lyrebird", Meredith Clark moves between poetry, metanarratives, and vignettes. Motivated by loss, she tries to accrue images and memories of a child yet unborn—perhaps to lure it into being, or to process her loss....
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A Wild Day at the Zoo
"A Wild Day at the Zoo" is a sweet and educational picture book introduction to the wonders and diversity of the zoo, as well as the wonders and diversity of human languages. In Victor D. O. Santos’s sweet, educational picture book...
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Outpedaling "The Big C"
Elizabeth McGowan lost her father to melanoma when he was forty-four and she was fifteen. She rediscovered him during a bike ride across the US, following her battle with the same disease. Joyful, introspective, terrifying, and sobering,...
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The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing
Three generations of men haunt the pages of Joseph Fasano’s novel about masculinity, fatherhood, and vengeance. The novel is set in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, where a father brings his nine-year-old son to the woods to...
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The Collective
"The Collective" is Lindsey Whitlock’s alternative American history novel. It’s set in the early 1800s in rural Badfish Creek, a community deep in the Illinois territory where trappers, escaped slaves, and anarchists build their...
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Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A patchwork story is the shame of a refugee,” says twelve-year-old Daniel, an Iranian refugee in Oklahoma with his sister, mother, and stepfather. The tale of what brought him to the buckle of the Bible Belt, to Tornado Alley and...
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Ghosts
The poems of "Ghosts" contain exacting imagery from the natural world, rich language, and a powerful sense of justice. Nancy L. Davis’s volume of poems, "Ghosts", traces the slim boundary between life and death, whether through nature,...