Daniel Woodrell’s prose in Winter’s Bone reflects his characters’ thought and speech: it’s pared down to the essentials – so laconic and economical that it almost becomes oblique. This is one of the main charms of this novel – the whittled-down telling of the raw emotion and ever-present tendency to violence of the characters; the stark natural world in winter fury and snow-bound calm; the harsh truth about backwoods mountain folk who are almost all related, and who as often as not, operate on...
March 22, 2015
"Me and Mr. Booker" by Cory Taylor
Author Cory Taylor takes us on a frank and funny journey in Me and Mr. Booker: this story of a teenaged girl’s - Martha’s - seduction by a man twice her age has dark, precocious humor, but it cautions us about the relationships grown-ups suffer through their entire lives. It’s brutally honest,but also unsupported by strong adult presence, or any kind of responsible guidance for the youngster at her moment of need. Ms. Taylor aims to amuse, and maybe obliquely to instruct, but this is...
March 15, 2015
"How Gone We Got" by Dina Guidubaldi
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Throughout How Gone We Got Dina Guidubaldi expounds on young alienated women struggling with life and those around them. Whether it’s remembering finding a corpse on the “It’s a Small World” ride at Walt Disney World, or dodging the advances of a handsome Latin ambassador, or getting ready to jump to her death...
March 01, 2015
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Richard Flanagan
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