A hilarious and poignant YA novel about finding your place in the world
…a loner, often irreverent, sometimes vulgar, incredibly funny, a nature lover, and artistically gifted. When she’s not working as Star’s uncredited and unpaid staff, she creates beautiful collages using natural…
Kathi Appelt delivers an epic tale of camels, kestrels, and the power of stories
…always a challenge, and that was certainly the case for me when it came to Zada. She’s the primary narrator for sure. And it took me some time, and several…
Wiley Cash’s fourth novel combines rich characters and compelling mystery
…Ghosts Come Home. Photo: Mallory Cash Set in 1984 in the small North Carolina coastal town of Oak Island, When Ghosts Come Home opens as an early-morning, low-flying airplane awakens…
Kristen Radtke’s Seek You considers our solitary era
…obsession as an expression of loneliness. She smartly contrasts loneliness with “aloneness,” which can be a healthy reflective state, even creative. Her panels — often spare, with single figures floating…
Brian Broome’s memoir rescues a childhood ended too soon
…children is enshrouded in the daily grind for survival. Punch Me Up to the Gods is constructed around verses from Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1959 poem “We Real Cool.” Reflecting the structure…
In Robert Olen Butler’s Late City, America’s last surviving WWI soldier reports his life story to God
…of Butler’s novel is to ponder the question of the good life. Has he given his wife Colleen love and support, especially when tragedy arrives? He feels guilty for spending…
