My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Fiction Writers Review, April 2016
For better or worse, as Lucy Barton discovers, you can run from your mother but you can’t hide.

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Fiction Writers Review, January 2015
All of Robinson’s novels are united by her compassionate attention to the possibility for amazing, transcendent grace breaking through and illuminating flawed human existence and our daily experience.