Book Review
Way Leads onto Way
"Way Leads onto Way" is a gentle, spiritual poetry collection that proffers answers to people’s daily challenges. In Estelle M. Deshon’s collection of poems "Way Leads onto Way", formal verse is the vehicle, and faith and gratitude...
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I Want Magic
A native of New Orleans with a PhD in English, C. W. Cannon brings his perspective to the city, the South, and race in his essay collection "I Want Magic". With eloquence and keen analyses, Cannon defends New Orleans as complex and...
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The Slowworm's Song
In Andrew Miller’s historical novel The Slowworm’s Song, a British family reckons with their patriarch’s military involvement in Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Though raised as a Quaker, Stephen joined the British army when he was...
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Accidental Sisters
"Accidental Sisters" is a tender memoir about adoption and about love within families, both biological and not. In "Accidental Sisters", Katherine Linn Caire’s uplifting memoir about finding her sister in middle age, coincidence and...
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Siren, On Repeat
Practical methods for managing long-term grief are named in the memoir Siren, on Repeat, the story of an ebullient friendship cut short by death. Patti Kimball writes about losing her best friend to heart disease when both girls were...
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Sonnish
"Sonnish" is a musing novel in which a genealogical search is used to show how knowledge increases empathy. Mary Capper’s mystical historical novel "Sonnish" represents a compassionate search for a family’s roots. Dozing near a...
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Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
A record of discoveries that mirror the paradoxes of a changing, surviving Mexican culture abroad, this memoir exemplifies the complexity of immigrant identities. Yvonne Martinez’s accomplished memoir-in-essays blends memories with...
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Rank Songbirds
"Rank Songbirds" is a confident and challenging multigenre collection that places interpersonal concerns into historical and political context. Novelist, essayist, and poet Leon Rooke’s literary collection "Rank Songbirds" is a slim,...
