From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests. Also see an interview in The New Yorker. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The Swallow and the Nightingale, Thea Iberall
Thanks to author Thea Iberall for information on The Swallow and the Nightingale, a fable about a 4,000 year old secret brought through time by the birds. A scientist risks her life to help her daughter and heal the world. Are you ready for the Good? Review blurbs: “The book […]
Read MoreThe River Between, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river. Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
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