Story Circle Book Reviews

This is a fascinating, well-researched book about the life of John D. Rockefeller’s most intelligent, creative and misunderstood child. Edith was the fourth of five children born into the richest family of the day in 1872. She grew up in an isolated, deeply conservative, luxurious home within the […]

Part travelogue, part memoir, Wherever the Road Leads will satisfy any reader’s wanderlust. The author, Katie Lang-Slattery, and her then-husband Tom, traversed four continents in their VW bus from 1971-1973. I don’t have the courage to abandon my life to become an itinerate traveler, but I revel in […]

Ms. Berkovits’ recent chapbook presents a moving chronological memoir in poetry that parallels her own journey from despair to hope and acceptance of her adult son’s tragic hemorrhagic stroke. Some of the poems are meditative; others, cries of anguish–but all capture a mother’s inner struggle with the realities […]