Reviews by Maryanne H. (Delmar, NY)

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Follow the Stars Home
by Diane C. McPhail
High Adventure on the Water (5/2/2024)
Diane C. McPhail plucks from history an audacious young woman, and using the available historical record, brings her to life in the novel FOLLOW THE STARS HOME. Lydia Roosevelt, née Latrobe, daughter of prominent DC architect Benjamin Latrobe, wife of inventor Nicholasmore
The Funeral Cryer: A Novel
by Wenyan Lu
Death, for a Living (1/29/2024)
The first person narrator of THE FUNERAL CRYER by Wenyan Lu is both a fully-developed denizen of a rural village in northeast China in real time and Everywoman. As a professional mourner at funerals, she needs to summarize and evaluate the lives of the deceased and lead themore
The Adversary: A Novel
by Michael Crummey
Not for the Faint-Hearted (12/18/2023)
The Adversary, Canadian novelist Michael Crummey's latest, is historical fiction in the same vein as the work of Hawthorne and Melville. Set in a remote fishing village on the north coast of Newfoundland in the late 1700s, the novel is impressively atmospheric, as itsmore
The Stone Home: A Novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
Bitter Pill (11/18/2023)
The Stone Home, Crystal Hana Kim's latest novel, is a hard book to read. It is a fictionalized story based on atrocities recently come to light. In the 1980s, the government of South Korea sanctioned the establishment of reformatories, basically incarceration and forcedmore
Devil Makes Three: A Novel
by Ben Fountain
A "Detailed" Look at Post-Coup Haiti, 1991 (8/25/2023)
Ben Fountain's Devil Makes Three takes place in Haiti between the 1991 coup of Aristide and the 1992 US election of Bill Clinton. What Fountain does not know about Haiti, he has researched well, from the intricacies of scuba diving the reefs around the island, tomore
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