Tag Archive: fiction satire

Cantankerous Characters Redefine Family, Challenge the System

October 1, 2019 5:05 am By Diane Slocum Leave your thoughts

Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Helen comes to homestead in Appalachian Ohio with her boyfriend, Shane, who deserts her before they face the first winter.

The Plotters by Un-Su Kim

March 19, 2019 7:27 pm By Cynthianna Matthews Leave your thoughts

The Plotters, Un-Su Kim, DoubleDay - Reseng is an assassin, a thirty-something veteran of the Library, a clearing house for assassinations across South Korea. The Library is owned by the curmudgeonly Old Raccoon, a recluse who commissions work without ever seeming to leave the place.