Literary Sagas

Book Review: The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James

The mash up of a Mexican western, a generational saga, and magical realism works extremely well at the hands of…

4 months ago

Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people…

11 months ago

Book Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie

The author assured me that this book was a translation of an epic poem called Jayaparajaya, retold so a layman…

1 year ago

Book Review: Next to Love by Ellen Feldman

While this is certainly not a history book, the lives of the women follow the national struggles (civil rights for…

13 years ago

Book Review: The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merill Block

When Frederick Merill leaves his wife Katharine and children to fight in WWII everything seems to be fine. however over…

13 years ago

Book Review: Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

The making of a writer. Daniel Baciagalupo and his father flee a 1950’s New Hampshire logging town after Daniel accidentally…

13 years ago

Book Review: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka

In A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True the author fashions the tale in a fairytale like narrative spiced…

14 years ago

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