A young college professor and a Navaho/Navajo student help Annie MacIver prove her father’s “heart attack” was an ingeniously wrought murder. What had happened at the house on Woodrow Lane? All yesterday, after her father had phoned her at h...
So spontaneous is the writing in A Lifetime Burning, one might believe these are indeed words of a woman desperately trying to understand what has happened to her life, beginning with the fact that her husband has stopped sleeping with her.
“It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.” " The Boston Globe
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, whit...
The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost by accident, they have forfeited control of their own lives. Trapped in a nursing home, they are the...