Author Madeline Sharples bases Papa’s Shoes on her aunt’s story about her relationship with a young teacher while attending high school in Danville, Illinois. The book depicts a Polish Jewish […]
Read MoreSusan Zurenda’s Bells For Eli is a simple yet complicated and powerful debut novel set in the 1960s and 1970s. Cousins Eli and Delia grow up across the street from each […]
Read MoreRebecca D’Harlingue’s The Lines Between Us is a historical novel with a dual storyline. Employing both narration and diaries and letters written by various characters, the author recreates two time […]
Read MoreSome novels forever change a reader’s awareness of the world around her. Disposable Souls is such a story. I will never see the photo of a missing woman or child […]
Read MoreLisa Braxton’s The Talking Drum begins with Amos Bronson Alcott’s words, “Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.” It is a complex story of gentrification, eminent domain, and the […]
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