When I pointed out Matadora to a friend in a bookstore last weekend, she scrunched her nose. "Who wants to read a book about bullfighting?" Well, readers might turn to Elizabeth Ruth's third novel for many other reasons. (So, if you're scrunching your nose too, please read on.) First, she was mentored
Curtis Sittenfeld's fiction often focusses on the question of a woman's identity, shifting and pulsing, whether from the perspective of a teenage girl or a president's wife (as in Prep and American Wife). Random House, 2013 When Daisy and Violet were little girls, twins, the sign on their bedroom
Because Maddaddam is the last work in a trilogy, it's appropriate to consider the author's comments on endings. McClelland & Stewart - Random House of Canada, 2013 They are hard, she says, in interview with Martin Halliwell in 2003, the same year that Oryx and Crake, the first
Last Saturday, I sat down, spoiled with treats from the farmers' market, to re-read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Today is the day I get reacquainted with The Year of the Flood. And I'm certainly not the only one who's spending time with the books in the trilogy this weekend; here's
When Tamara Levine was diagnosed with breast cancer, she began sending e-mail letters to about fifty family members, friends and colleagues, to keep everybody in the loop. Second Story Press, 2012 Almost immediately, these letters took on a great significance in her Healing Journey, offering a kind of
