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Children's/YA
My Name is Layla
My Name Is Layla is a layered and powerful story set in present day, small town America. The point of view narrator is Layla, thirteen years old and starting eighth grade. Her dad named her Layla–the only thing he gave her. People tell her Layla is a poetic […]
Fiction
Saving Irene: A Culinary Mystery
Saving Irene is set in Chicago, present day but pre-Covid-19. It’s a delectable, fun read. Protagonist Henny James tells the story. Her voice is light, witty and brutally honest. Henny’s in her late 20s, ambitious, and recovering from a broken relationship back home in Texas. She is resourceful, […]
P.S. I Love You More than Tuna
When my partner Sarah and I moved across Canada, we brought our four cats along with us to live on Vancouver Island. All of them have passed on since the move fifteen years ago and yet we remember each of them with love. Each was unique, whether chatty […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Once a Girl, Always a Boy
Siblings Elizabeth and Emily prepare for Elizabeth’s wedding. Emily, aged 23, is asked to be maid of honor and accepts, but immediately feels uncomfortable. Hoping that ignoring the feeling will make it go away, hoping it’ll get better and be okay, Emily agonizes over what to do. Then […]
Reviewed by: Doris Clark
Poetry
Driving through Paintings
We are all artists— casting spells here and there leaving a part of ourselves Somewhere… -from the poem “Letter” With the collection of 39 poems in Driving through Paintings, writer and artist Leslie Klein invites us on a thoughtful, often intimate, journey through moments spanning her […]
