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In That Number
Regan Burke was named after one of King Lear’s cruel daughters, just one of the surprises the author of In That Number would discover about herself while growing up. But Burke is anything but cruel. She fits into that category far-right conservatives spit out like a cuss word: […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Review of the Month
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Review of the Month
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Fiction
Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
The thirteen stories in Marion Quednau’s collection are humorous as well as unsettling, and they definitely draw a reader in—sometimes to sympathize and sometimes because suspicion is aroused. And sometimes for pure delight. I find it fascinating to note where the stories are situated: not on the mountain […]
Inspirational
the moon won’t be dared
Anne Leigh Parrish’s first anthology, entitled the moon won’t be dared, is a beautiful collection of ponderings, noticings, and recollections from our ever changing modern world. The poet dispenses with conventions such as capital letters, allowing her words to flow like a river over pebbles of insight. In […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Ready from Within
Ready from Within—think about that title. It describes the core values of Septima Poinsette Clark. Nothing deterred her from her goal to educate fellow Black citizens and further their opportunity to vote. Her work and her name have been overlooked in the history of the modern civil rights […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
