Flora by Gail Godwin

Written by hybrid1 on April 20, 2016. Posted in Book Reviews

Flora by Gail Godwin

Washington Independent Review of Books, June 2013
Godwin’s story lingers in the mind’s eye and ear, gently haunting the reader even after the book is closed.

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Written by hybrid1 on April 20, 2016. Posted in Book Reviews

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

Written by hybrid1 on January 20, 2015. Posted in Book Reviews

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.