Salt Houses, Hala Alyan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Salma Yacoub, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren call a lot of places home. And for that reason, many times they feel as if no place is their real home.
Diane Slocum
Diane Slocum has been a newspaper reporter and editor and authored an historical book. As a freelance writer, she contributes regularly to magazines and newspapers. She writes features on authors and a column for writers and readers in Lifestyle magazine. She is assigned to write interviews of first-time novelists and bestselling authors for Authorlink®
Tragedy Strikes Acting Students When Life Imitates Art
If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio, Flatiron Books Macmillan – Seven acting students made the cut into their fourth year at Dellecher Classical Conservatory. Their on-stage Shakespearian roles have become predictable
Love and Death and Setting Things Right in Old San Francisco
The Half Wives, Stacia Pelletier, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – In 1883 San Francisco, Henry and Marilyn Plageman lost their little boy and most of their reason for living. Henry’s cause became saving the cemetery where Jack is buried.
Ten-Year-Old Deals with Death, Sleepwalking and Rabbit Cakes
Rabbit Cakes, Annie Hartnett, Tin House Books – In Annie Hartnett’s debut novel, Rabbit Cake, ten-year-old Elvis lost her mother in a sleep-swimming accident. Or was it an accident?
Young Teens Attempt to Breach The Impossible Fortress
The Impossible Fortress, Jason Rekulak, Simon & Schuster – In Jason Rekulak’s novel, The Impossible Fortress, young teens in a 1987 New Jersey working-class neighborhood set goals to break into several impossible places.
Teenager’s Choices Echo Throughout Her Life
History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund, Grove Atlantic – In Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves, a teenage girl raised on a failed commune in the north woods of Minnesota feels like she doesn’t fit in at home or at school.
Mom and Daughter with Psychic Powers Struggle to Save Each Other
All the Breaking Waves, Kerry Lonsdale, Lake Union Publishing – The women in Molly’s family have special abilities – to foresee the future, to communicate telepathically, and in Molly’s case, to cause people to do as she directs against their own will.
Little Girl Struggles with Dysfunctional Family in 1960s South
The Education of Dixie Dupree, Donna Everhart, Kensington Publishing Corp. – Eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree did not like being around Uncle Ray. He had a creepy way of getting too close to her.
Riches to Rags Wang Family Faces New Life in America
The Wangs vs the World, Jade Chang, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – When Charles Wang emigrated to America from Taiwan he hit on a lucky break. He started a cosmetic empire from his family’s urea business.
Terrible Secrets Come Out Along the Wolf Road
The Wolf Road, Beth Lewis, Crown – In the post-apocalyptic north country, Elka is tossed into the woods during a storm, taken in, and raised by a man she calls Trapper.
