The book March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott‘s novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott’s protagonists’ absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March’s absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction….
Crossing to Safety is a 1987 semi-autobiographical novel by “The Dean of Western Writers”, Wallace Stegner. It gained broad literary acclaim and commercial popularity.
The Book The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. Author PHILIP ROTH (1933–2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National…
The book An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend…
About the book Told in four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers—in short, an encapsulation of the immigrant’s life. The author Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy (1956-2019) was the…
About the book In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature’s vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard’s original body of work. ISBN: 9780061239540 ISBN 10: 0061239542 Imprint: Harper Perennial On Sale: 06/10/2008 About the author Annie Dillard has written twelve books,including in nonfiction For…
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) was born and died in South Berwick, Maine. Her father was the region’s most distinguished doctor and, as a child, Jewett often accompanied him on his round of patient visits. She began writing poetry at an early age and when she was only 19 her short story “Mr. Bruce” was accepted…
Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper,…
An unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones’s masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone’s throw behind them and the future uncertain.
An impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also an evocation of and paean to the natural world. Discussed May 19, 2019Book recommended by Grace
