“A glimpse into the lives of three women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers.” This line from the synopsis of No Names to Be Given drew me […]
No Names to Be Given
Author: Julia Brewer Daily
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An Interview with Jennifer Smith Turner, Author of Child Bride
Author: Jennifer Smith Turner
Child Bride is the 2020 winner of SCN’s Sarton Award for historical fiction. Jennifer Smith Turner knows who she is and where she came from. “…my great-grandfather was a […]
Closer to Fine
Author: Jodi S. Rosenfeld
Did I pick up this book for an education about female sexuality, Jewish tradition, and psychotherapy? No, I did not; but to my surprise, I was soon absorbing new information […]
In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World
Author: Kirsteen MacLeod
Kirsteen MacLeod refers to herself as “a serial retreater, creating islands of space and time, a week here, a month there, to answer a faint call, barely heard above the […]
Don’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents
Author: Elizabeth Roper Marcus
Harebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t […]
The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
Author: Robin Clifford Wood
If you’ve never heard of the early 20th century author Rachel Field, kindly know that Robin Clifford Wood has just published a richly researched, hybrid-structured biography/memoir of the extraordinary woman […]
