Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a Memoir

2024-08-22T13:24:54-04:00

Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed and Maurice Mierau's Detachment: An Adoption Memoir are a perfect pair. Penguin Random House, 2014 And the Mountains Echoed begins with a story, told by a father to his son and his daughter. "Father never felt more present to Abdullah, more vibrant, revealed,

Telling Father’s Story: A Novel and a Memoir2024-08-22T13:24:54-04:00

Candace Savage’s A Geography of Blood (2012)

2014-07-11T16:35:10-04:00

"The 'geography' in question is the Cypress Hills, a broken rise of land that straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, just north of Havre, Montana," the author explains.*  "The country is a complete knockout for anyone who enjoys the romance of the Earth’s history or who is susceptible to the wild, windblown beauty of

Candace Savage’s A Geography of Blood (2012)2014-07-11T16:35:10-04:00

Notes on Reading Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol’s Love and Forgetting

2014-06-26T14:47:23-04:00

While Love and Forgetting was in my stack of current reads, I listened to the World Book Club's podcast edition of a discussion of Albert Camus' The Outsider. Camus is someone whose work I associate with formal study, not pleasure, but Harriet Gilbert's interviews draw me into subjects I don't

Notes on Reading Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol’s Love and Forgetting2014-06-26T14:47:23-04:00
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