Tag: Women’s domestic life fiction
Friend’s Death Sends Psychiatrist on Road to Discovery
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Ecklund? by Anna Montague, ecco – Magda Ecklund’s best friend, Sara, has died and Magda is having a hard time coping.
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Mysterious Letter Opens Crack in Rigidly Ordered Life
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder, Kerry Mayne, St. Martin Press – Lenny Marks’ life runs right on schedule. She teaches school but has little interaction with other
teachers. Or anyone else.
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza, Dutton – Sara Marsala is having a bad time. Her award-winning restaurant has shuttered. She’s bankrupt. Her husband is filing for divorce and sole custody of their daughter.
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Rediscovered Novel Finds Posthumous Publication
The Fetishist, Katherine Min, – The writer Katherine Min’s posthumously published book, The Fetishist, explores themes of race, femininity, complicity and visibility of Asian women in a savagely funny and incisive way.
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Authorlink Chat: Lazaridis’s novel asks what is right and true?
Authorlink Chat: Last Days in Plaka, Henriette Lazaridis, Pegasus Books – Today’s Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity–it is grand and scruffy, ancient, and modern, full of strivers, refugees, and old-timers–and nowhere more so than the neighborhood of Plaka, where the Parthenon looms overhead
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Interview: Kittle’s Morning in This Broken World
How can I make my writing better?
“You can make it better later. First, you have to make it exist.” Just like anything else in the world, you only get better at it by doing it,” says Katrina Kittle, author of Morning in This Broken World. Read the full interview.
Good Book to Read: The Wishing Bridge by Viola Shipman
Good Book to Read: The Wishing Bridge, Viola Shipman, Graydon House – Henrietta “Henri” Wegner is fifty two, menopausal, and hanging on to her job at Tolliver & Co for dear life.
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Good Book to Read: The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
Good Book to Read: The Last Love Note, Emma Grey, Zibby Books – Canberra, Australia, native Kate Whittaker is left widowed at age thirty-eight with a young child and a world of heartache to navigate.
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Good Book to Read: The Four Corners of the Heart by Francoise Sagan
Good Book to Read, The Four corners of the Heart by Francoise Sagan, Amazon Crossing – Françoise Sagan’s unfinished novel, “The Four Corners of the Heart,” is a praiseworthy read and in keeping with her past novels about the wealthy French “bourgeois”.
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Good Book to Read: The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Review: The Tree Doctor, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Graywolf Press – Can a deadly virus teach a better appreciation of life?
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Review: The Midnight Garden by Elaine Roth
Review: Can two broken hearts believe in second chances? The Midnight Garden, Elaine Roth, Lake Union – Hope Gold is left widowed at the tender age of twenty-three when her husband Brandon dies in an accident.
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Interview: Kittle’s Morning in This Broken World Copy
How can I make my writing better?
“You can make it better later. First, you have to make it exist.” Just like anything else in the world, you only get better at it by doing it,” says Katrina Kittle, author of Morning in This Broken World. Read the full interview.
