Quietly Determined
Lizzie Craig, the quiet, determined young woman at the heart of Margot Livesey’s The Road to Belhaven, discovers at age 10 that she possesses powers of clairvoyance. When her grandmother…
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Liar, Liar
…who compete with and distract from the old institutional gatekeepers. The old information sheriffs weren’t perfect, had their biases, made their mistakes, and were slow. But in that ecosphere, they…
A Runaway’s Story
There’s a scene in Rachel M. Hanson’s The End of Tennessee: A Memoir where Rachel, aged 15, is standing in the hallway of an East Tennessee theater where she is…
A Country of Purity
…specific plot element relating to the murder case, there’s a blessed absence of technology in the lives of these aging Boomers.) But despite the Norman Rockwell quality of the setting,…
A Place Called Vulnerable
…in the back of my Bible and wishing the time would pass. Later in the church there’d be a Communion, grape juice and crackers, but first the text for the…
Variations on the Immigrant Life
…servants. In the climax of the story (a clever example of the George Saunders school of satire), a researcher stumbles on an archive that reveals the horrific extent of the…
