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 Cloud and a mysterious yellow … 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 heart, humor, and humility on … 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 an age of wilderness, but … 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 Free is a lyrical novel … 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 In this unsettling modern Lilith … 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 well as heroin addiction and … 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 the meaning of ‘deep ecology.’” … 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, and a string of disastrous … 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. Since Lucybelle died in 1966 and … 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 countryside, unraveling the suicide of … 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 sacred text, one part social … 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 volume, following Some Luck and … 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 extensively under water. An imprisoned … Read more