HNR Issue 57 (August 2011)
The Deepest Waters
This poignant novel, inspired by the true story of a steamship that sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas in…
Lyrics Alley
Editors' choice
The Abuzeids are one of the most prominent families in 1950s Sudan. The patriarch, Mahmoud Bey, amassed the family fortune…
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
This is the story of a man who wasn’t all that strange – at least until after his Vietnam experience.…
I Gave My Heart to Know This
This multigenerational saga takes us from the female shipbuilding welders of Rosie the Riveter fame during World War II to…
Jerusalem Maiden
For Esther Kaminsky, a young ultra-Orthodox woman in Jerusalem, there has never been any doubt that she will grow up…
It Had To Be You
June Francis writes a good saga, and she’s written a good many. Popular with readers, her sagas are easy, comfy…
Any Survivors?
The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five…
The Cuckoo’s Child
The Cuckoo’s Child is a period murder mystery with an intriguing and complex plot. Readers should not be put off…
Children and Fire
Hegi is a writer I’ve intended to read for some time now. I also intend to finish Madame Bovary some…
Child Wonder
It is 1961, the year of the Berlin Wall and Yuri Gagarin, and eight year old Finn is living alone…
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