Tag: womens domestic life
Author Talk: Russian mother and biracial daughter spar over selfhood
by Diane Slocum | May 1, 2023 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Interview: A Country You Can Leave, Asale Angel-Ajani, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Lara and her mother, Yevgenia, never stay in one place for long. Yevgenia is a Russian immigrant with strong opinions about life. Sixteen-year-old Lara’s absent father was a Black musician.
Read MoreAuthor Talk: The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly
by Doris Booth | Apr 1, 2023 | Featured, Interviews, Video | 0 |
Interview: The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, Katherine A. Sherbrooke, Pegasus Books – Inspired by a true-to-life mystery in her own family, Katherine A. Sherbrooke’s latest novel, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF ASTER KELLY offers an inside look at fashion, movie making, and clandestine affairs in 1940s Hollywood.
Read MoreReview: A Wish for Winter by Viola Shipman
by Cindy Matthews | Dec 28, 2022 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Review: A Wish for Winter, Viola Shipman, Graydon House – Forty years ago, Petoskey, Michigan, bookstore owner Susan Norcross was born into a family that really does Christmas.
Read MoreInterview: Jacquelyn Mitchard captures emotion of motherly love
by Doris Booth | Jan 1, 2022 | Featured, Interviews, Video | 0 |
Interview: The Good Son, Jacquelyn Mitchard – New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard talks to Authorlink about her latest book, THE GOOD SON (Mira Books, January 2022).
Read MoreInterview: Everything We Didn’t Say, by Nicole Baart
by Doris Booth | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured, Interviews, Video | 0 |
Interview: Everything We Didn’t Say, by Nicole Baart
Read MoreReview: Do No Harm by Christina McDonald
by Kate Padilla | Nov 10, 2020 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Review: Do No Harm, Christina McDonald, Gallery Books – Christina McDonald’s novel, “Do No Harm,” is a vexing story that pivots around parents who resort to nightmarish measures to fund medical treatment for their dying son.
Read MoreReview: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
by Kate Padilla | Sep 16, 2020 | Book Reviews | 0 |
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel, Gallery Books – Eva Traube Abrams, a university student living in Paris, refuses to believe a warning from a fellow student, who, like herself, wears a yellow star.
Read MoreReview: 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love by Daphne Merkin
by Doris Booth | Aug 1, 2020 | Featured, Written | 0 |
Review: 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love, Daphne Merkin, Macmillian – “In this story there is no final scene, no decisive change of heart or firm resolve so much as a furious inner struggle—a struggle that has left no discernible traces yet has marked me as surely as bruises after a fall.”
Read MoreBook Review: A Forgotten Murder by Jude Deveraux
by Cindy Matthews | May 17, 2020 | Book Reviews | 0 |
A Forgotten Murder, Jude Deveraux, Mira Books – Oxley Manor, England, seat of the Earls of Oxley, saw its share of tragedies over the centuries. The latest was the death of the last heir in a car accident.
Read MoreThis Terrible Beauty by Katrin Schuman
by Kate Padilla | Jan 10, 2020 | Book Reviews | 0 |
This Terrible Beauty, Katrin Schuman, Lake Union Publishing – Suspense seeps through each page of Katrin Schumann’s historical fiction novel, “The Terrible Beauty.” Her evocative characters maneuver through a grim life on the German island of Rügen during Hitler’s regime …
Read MoreWrite for Joy Says Bestselling Author Center
by Ellen Birkett Morris | Oct 1, 2019 | Interviews, Written | 0 |
Things You Save In a Fire, Katherine Center, Macmillan – Katherine Center has a knack for creating women characters that are down to earth, yet heroic, inspiring, but real.
Read MoreElliot Ackerman: Waiting for Eden, a Stunning Work
by Doris Booth | Nov 1, 2018 | Audio, Featured, Interviews | 0 |
Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman, Knopf – Elliot Ackerman—whose last novel, Dark at the Crossing, was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award—returns with WAITING FOR EDEN (Knopf, 2018 ), a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that showcases Ackerman’s singular gift for depicting humanity in all its complexity.
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