8/20/24
There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak. Knopf, 2024. 464 pages.
One of the best novels I have read this year. Please see “Reviews-Fiction.”
Month: August 2024
Women and Weaving in 17th century England
Blue Hawk by Chloe Turner. Deixis Press, 2024. 304 pages.
Those interested in fabric arts as well as women’s history will enjoy this novel, based on historical records of the 17th century cloth industry.
LIVING WITH AMERICA’S ACTIONS in Viet Nam
Absolution, by Alice MacDermott. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2023. 324 pages.
In this novel, an 83 year-old woman looks back at her time as a young wife with her CIA-advisor husband in 1963 Viet Nam.