Story Circle Book Reviews

On the Wings of a Hummingbird is many heartfelt stories in one. It is a U.S. immigration story, succinctly capturing the complexities and inherent pitfalls of the immigration system. It is a Central American emigration story, a vivid introduction to the hopelessness in present-day Guatemala—due in large part […]

Set in 1890 in New York City, this engaging, well-researched novel is full of unexpected twists and turns. A cast of well-developed characters keeps the reader turning the pages to see what will happen next, all while gaining historical information about the lives of ordinary people of the […]

Halfway From Home is a lyrical and precise cartography of what it means to belong—to a place, to poverty, to a family where abundance never visits, to a life shaped by restlessness as an escape from pain. Montgomery sings language like the poet she is, and charts the […]

“My mother went missing before I was born.” With that simple statement, author Janice Airhart introduces her mother, Barbara Jean Henke, as the subject of her book, Mother of My Invention: A Motherless Daughter Memoir. What follows is a touching, heartbreaking, and poignant account of the author’s longing […]

Inside the pages of The Collected Poems of Josie Craig Berry, one will find the measured voice of an educated Oklahoma Black woman, born in 1888, whose poetry and prose may delight, surprise, and most certainly engage readers. Editor J.C. Mish spent fifteen years researching Oklahoma poetry when […]