Sandra is called to her hometown of Cleveland to “babysit” her sister-in-law Janine while Sandra’s brother Greg, an investigative journalist, goes on an overseas assignment. Janine suffers from a life-threatening […]
Read MoreSerenity Tomczyk, the first-person narrator of Love and Other Incurable Ailments, is obsessive to the point of hypochondria, annoying yet shy, well-meaning, funny, sometimes unlikable, and one of the most […]
Read MoreRemember 1969? It’s the year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and President Nixon took office and implemented “Vietnamization.” If it’s a year when you were in your teens […]
Read More“Our stories start in the water.” Song of Belonging is a meditation on the interconnectedness of sea life, Earth, and humans’ roles within that system. Told through perspectives from three […]
Read MoreAshes and Ruins begins in the home of an affluent Jewish German family in 1935. The protagonist, Clara, came from a large and very wealthy family, and her eight siblings […]
Read MoreMany people, as they stroll through cemeteries, notice the names and dates on the headstones of strangers. They might comment about how old—or, sadly, how young—someone was at death. They […]
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