Literary
Sor Juana’s Second Dream: A Novel
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This lovely novel can be read without any previous knowledge of the famous Mexican nun. The author evokes the feel of 17th century ...Read Review
Chang and Eng
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In this enthralling first novel, Darin Strauss has combined meticulous historical research with imaginative storytelling to create a richly detailed, multi-layered account of ...Read Review
Molly
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Friendship and families both provoke powerful emotions, particularly for women. Molly, the debut novel by Nancy J. Jones, explores how two young girls, ...Read Review
The Rose Grower
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In 1789, monumental changes took place in France. Australian writer Michelle de Kretser’s debut novel begins on the famously fateful 14th of July — ...Read Review
Daughter of My People
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In rural South Carolina in 1918, the social taboos in existence prior to the Civil War are still adhered to, but Hart Bonner has ...Read Review
In the Name of Salome
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Alvarez alternates between the story of Salome Urena, a poet in the politically turbulent Dominican Republic of the nineteenth century and that of ...Read Review
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
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In November 1864, General John Bell Hood ordered the army of Tennessee to perform a frontal assault against a secure Union defensive position outside ...Read Review
The Year of Jubilo
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Howard Bahr’s Civil War fiction has already earned praise from critics, casual readers, and the ever-growing number of Americans who remain consumed ...Read Review
Grange House
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Grange House is an elegant, charming recreation of a late Victorian gothic novel, complete with ghostly appearances, long-lost family secrets, and a narrative ...Read Review
Day of the Bees
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Zermano, the Spanish painter who depicted the horror of modern war, not in “Guernica” but in “Archangel Gabriel Flames Down the Sky.” His ...Read Review
