Becoming Mariella is author Janet Constantino’s debut novel. Constantino, half Sicilian herself, brings us Sicily in full sensory detail, and a protagonist to root for—Mariella, twenty-two and engaged to handsome […]
Author of the 2023 Sarton Young Adult Fiction Award Winner Eat and Get Gas Becoming a writer was not a goal for Jodi Wright, whose young adult novel Eat and […]
Clementine Msengi has written a compelling autobiography that held my attention throughout. As a survivor of the Rwanda genocide (1994), she describes the ordeal—many ordeals—with descriptions of events one can […]
Everyone comes from somewhere. Many times family history and lore are lost when the older generations pass. Margaret Ostrowski’s work with immigrants to Canada sparked her initiative to explore her […]
Expecting a baby can generate equal measures of anxiety and joy. The months before the child is born are spent learning what to expect and planning for the much-anticipated son […]
Charlotte Whitney skillfully takes us back to rural Michigan during the Great Depression. Desperate families pass on their children to extended family to feed, or sell them or abandon them. […]
