Placidia only knew her future husband for 48 hours before she married him. They met […]
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a reputation. Everyone someone asked what I was reading this week, […]
The Small Backs of Children, by Lidia Yuknavitch
Every now and then, I run across a book that I can’t explain to other […]
The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
So many novels and movies end with whoever needs to be saved, saved. The bad […]
Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
In physics, the “arrow of time” is a metaphor for time and entropy first coined […]
The Longest Night, by Andria Williams
Being a military wife is a tough job. Being a military wife whose husband is assigned […]
The Food of a Younger Land, edited by Mark Kurlansky
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I grew up on a blend of midwestern […]
All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders
The future is impossible to predict, which is why I’m always surprised that some people […]
Bellevue, by David Oshinsky
When I read non-fiction, I usually end up reading something weird (Agent Zigzag or Grunt) or […]
Mr Splitfoot, by Samantha Hunt
Belief is a powerful thing. It can also be a dangerous thing, as we learn […]