The novel offers doses of thrills, intrigue, oddball characters, and a splash of romance for those who like their fiction weird. An ironic moment of serendipity brings two strange people together in "The Professor and the Suicide Girl",... Read More

Marie Deans was a strong writer, and her words have an immediacy that nicely contrasts with the thorough biography of her life. For about three decades, Marie Deans devoted herself to fighting the death penalty, first in South Carolina... Read More

When "After the Bloom" opens, Rita Takemitsu is, once again, cruising the streets looking for her mother, Lily. But as time passes with no sign of Lily, a new urgency infuses the old familiarity. Fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian... Read More