The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide was published in 2004 but is still getting accolades in the media and has celebrated many reprints … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Historical
Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Midnight at the Electric, Review by Kimberly Christensen
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Hardcover, 259 pages Published June 13, 2017 by HarperCollins Reviewed by Kimberly … Continue reading →
The Wild Birds, Emily Strelow
Emily Strelow’s mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an … Continue reading →
Mother of Rain, Karen Spears Zacharias
Using the idiom of the time and place–a small, close-knit, East Tennessee community as the Depression yields to World War … Continue reading →
Cave Walker, Donelle Dreese
My hope is that Cave Walker fits into contemporary eco-fiction in the sense that nature occupies a central space in … Continue reading →
All Among the Barley, Melissa Harrison
All Among the Barley works best in its intensely-researched descriptions of farming: although prone to words like “Cerulean”, “soughing” and … Continue reading →
Winternight Trilogy, Katherine Arden
This looks fantastic! A fairytale/fantasy where surrounding nature strongly intersects with the story. A magical debut novel for readers of … Continue reading →
On a River’s Bank, A Madhavan
Unfortunately I cannot find this book at Goodreads yet, but the Hindu Business Line has an interesting article with the … Continue reading →
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to … Continue reading →
Shadow Country Trilogy, Peter Matthiessen
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines … Continue reading →