The Feasting Virgin, by Georgia Kolias. Bywater Books, 2020. FORTHCOMING: July 2020. 3 stars A light hearted book about a 38-year-old virgin who craves a baby, but rejects male involvement, a...
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The Story So Far: A Novel, by Jane Eklund. Bauhan Publishing, 2020. Forthcoming 3 stars An unusual novel about a young lesbian, who is seduced by a cultured woman almost three decades older a...
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The Thinking Woman, by Julienne van Loon. Rutgers, 2020. FORTHCOMING: October 2020. 3 stars Provocative essays by an Australian writer about her engagement with six international feminist sch...
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Ballad of an American: A Graphic History of Paul Robeson, by Sharon Rudhal. Edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware. Rutgers University Press, 2020. Forthcoming: October 2020. 3 stars A valu...
Island , by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen. Pushkin Press, 2020. Translator from Danish, Caroline Waight. 4 stars A gentle book by a Danish writer about her grandmother who migrated to De...
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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World, by Jennifer Sinor. University of Nebraska Press. FORTHCOMING 5 stars FAVORITE Brave, compelling personal, narrative essays by a young woman i...
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, by Jennifer Ackerman. Forthcoming May 5, 2020 2 stars. A collection of descriptions of unexpected behavior of birds fr...
Convictions of Faith, by R.S. Basa. The Marked, 2020. 3 stars Historical fiction about a real African woman, a prophet who led a popular religious movement which threatened local political lead...
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The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett. Harper Collins, 2019. A novel about two siblings haunted into their adult lives by the loss of their mother, their father, and their big, strange home. 3 stars...
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An Elegant Woman, by Martha McPhee. Scribner, 2020. Forthcoming June 2020 5 stars A wonderful novel about several generations of women of an American family, their reinventions and the personal...
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