Story Circle Book Reviews

The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could by Yxta Maya Murray is a collection of fourteen fiction stories based on recent social and political events. It is also a force of nature. This book began by disrupting my usual measured approach to reading a book for […]

English author Mary Shelley is the subject of Kathleen W. Renk’s latest novel, Vindicated. Throughout much of history, Mary has been obscured by what poet Leigh Hunt termed her “four fames,” referring to: her famous radical feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft; her famous father, novelist and philosopher William Godwin; […]

My children’s half-sister lost her house and all outbuildings in the 2020 Glass Fire that swept the mountains above Santa Rosa. She later said her father had always told her it was not a question of if fire came but when. Patricia Malone lived five years in the […]

“Wilderness has her way with you. She reveals and she conceals.” DJ Lee’s Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots explores her family’s connection and history with Moose Creek, a ranger station ensconced within Idaho’s Selway-Bitterroot corridor. Lee has an endless fascination with the Bitterroots through two perspectives. Her […]

“It’s almost December,” writes Jenna Butler at the beginning of Revery, “the days dimming rapidly toward the turn of the year. Up here in the boreal forest of Alberta, the low sun clears the horizon and noses into our market garden at around nine o’clock in the morning. […]