The Book of Dog, Lark Benobi
Brit+Co named The Book of Dog one of 2018’s best feminist books. t’s the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom … Read more
Category Archives: Woman’s
Compass Rose, Anna Burke
This swashbuckling 26th century adventure novel is smart, colorful and quirky, yet it manages to deliver a healthy dose of … Read more
The Word for Woman is Wilderness, Abi Andrews
The many-colored themes and ideas in the book are themselves painted on complex and overlapping canvases – of feminism, in … Read more
All Rivers Run Free, Natasha Carthew
Thanks so much to the publisher for sending me a galley and press about this upcoming novel. All Rivers Run … Read more
Tarry this Night, Kristyn Dunnion
This vividly imagined dystopian novel, set in the near future, unfolds over the course of a few days. –The Star … Read more
Heart Spring Mountain, Robin MacArthur
This week the author is reaping praise upon the release of “Heart Spring Mountain,” which tackles global warming — as … Read more
Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, JL Newton
Thanks to the author, who told me that her new novel “engages with many environmental themes and tries to enlarge … Read more
Black Wave, Michelle Tea
It’s 1999 in San Francisco, and as shockwaves of gentrification sweep through Michelle’s formerly scruffy neighborhood, money troubles, drug-fueled mishaps, … Read more
A Thin Bright Line, Lucy Jane Bledsoe
One day a few years ago I was telling a friend about my aunt and she suggested I Google her. … Read more
A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel is one of my favorites: the tale of Etsuko, a Japanese woman living in the English … Read more
Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha
Conventional exclamatory phrases don’t come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia’s Brood. One part … Read more
Golden Age, Jane Smiley
Part of the Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga trilogy From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final … Read more
The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall
A novel about survival in a dystopian future in which an authoritarian government in the UK dominates a landscape now … Read more