Book Review
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,...
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The Humbling and Other Poems
Via formal verses, the poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" conveys a gentle, generous world view. Written in traditional formats, the entries of Robert J. Tiess’s poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" concern...
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Lambda
In David Musgrave’s fascinating novel "Lambda", a woman is enmeshed in conflicts between surveillance police, a synthetic person, and genetically human Lambdas. “A lambda function is a small anonymous function”: this computer...
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All We Have to Believe In
"All We Have to Believe In" is a sprawling historical novel that’s concerned with individual accountability, collective responsibility, and empathy. Set in the period between the World Wars I and II, Jeffrey J. Lousteau’s historical...