Sherry Jones
The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick
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Journalist Sharon Wright brings her keen reporter’s eye to this vibrant biography of Maria Branwell, the mother of literary lionesses Charlotte, Anne, ...Read Review
The Colonel’s Wife
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Rosa Liksom’s novel is amazing, powerful, and remarkable, and everyone should read it, including, again, me. The Finnish author delves deeply into ...Read Review
You Will Be Safe Here
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Cruelty begets cruelty in Damian Barr’s haunting novel. Set in South Africa, the book skillfully juxtaposes past and present to show how ...Read Review
The Nickel Boys
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The incomparable Colson Whitehead follows his Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Underground Railroad with a tale that is much different and yet, sadly, much the same. ...Read Review
Outside Looking In
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This novel about acid guru Timothy Leary, his band of Harvard-grad-student devotees, and their 1960s acid-laced research into the psychiatric possibilities for LSD ...Read Review
Swan Song
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As it explores the motives behind author Truman Capote’s decision to write a roman à clef betraying the secrets of his longtime confidantes, ...Read Review
American Pop
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“Southerners are only as good as their ability to tell a story,” writes Snowden Wright. His terrific novel American Pop proves Wright to ...Read Review
Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton
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Donna Baier Stein has embarked on an intriguing mission in Scenes from the Heartland: imagining stories around artworks by Missouri’s Thomas Hart ...Read Review
The Evening Road
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This is a gem of a book about race and entitlement, deftly and beautifully told. Ottie Lee Henshaw, a white woman in rural ...Read Review
Home Sweet Home
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This page-turner about a liberal New York City family that leaves the rat race for a simple life in South Dakota in 1950 is ...Read Review
