From the very first pages, this beautiful novel weaves closely observed details of cooking, sewing, and the love-hate struggles of four generations of an Italian-American family into patterns as intricate […]
Read MoreThe Ways of Water is historical fiction set from 1906–1921 inspired by author Teresa H. Janssen’s grandmother Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana locomotive engineer and a Texas seamstress. […]
Read MoreWater Music takes place in the summer of 1956; it has a bit of nostalgic magic. The story is told in the voice of the very bright twelve-year-old, Lily. Her […]
Read MoreAs an author and career communicator, I second Maggie Mayhem’s statement in the introduction to Adventures in Bodily Autonomy that stories have more power than statistics when it comes to […]
Read MoreAuthor Celine Keating’s third novel, The Stark Beauty of Last Things, begins in early autumn in Montauk, New York–a community dependent on the ocean and its lush natural surroundings–as it […]
Read MoreJane Angier’s father is a trapper in 1840s New Brunswick. The entire family shares in the work, which takes them into the wilderness to trap prey and to towns and […]
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