The Seal Wife book by Kathryn Harrison
Peter Ibbetson
Kathryn Harrison’s most recent novel is a finely detailed if somewhat dull historical fiction that considers the development of one man’s character in the context of developing scientific technology. In…
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April Witch book by Majgull Axelsson
The award-winning Swedish novel April Witch is the dark and powerful tale of Desirée, a severely disabled woman abandoned at birth by her mother to spend her entire life in…
House of Women book by Lynn Freed
“My mother keeps every key to her house on a ring attached to her bag,” says seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Thea early in Lynn Freed’s beautifully told fifth novel, House of Women .…
Video book by Meera Nair
Meera Nair’s first book, Video , is a collection of ten short stories with a wide range of settings and protagonists. She moves from a small Indian village to Phoenix,…
The Black Veil book by Rick Moody
In the preface to The Black Veil, Moody writes that the “book and my life are written in fits, more like epilepsy than like a narrative,” clarifying his description of…