Books reviewed by Karen Lewis at BookBrowse.

Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis is a freelance writer and editor who leads workshops with California Poets in the Schools. She earned an MFA from Antioch-Los Angeles and formerly directed the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her poetry chapbook Peace Maps is available from Finishing Line Press. When not writing or reading, she’s passionate about travel, garden-to-table, outdoor adventures, keeping the oceans clean and safe, and building world peace. Visit her at wordjourneys.org

Books reviewed by Karen Lewis

Nobody Gets Out Alive (05/18/22)

The Caretakers (04/20/22)

The Shadow of the Empire (02/16/22)

What Storm, What Thunder (01/05/22)

Tenderness (11/17/21)

The Last Nomad (09/22/21)

A Woman of Intelligence (08/18/21)

Infinite Country (03/17/21)

To Be a Man (01/06/21)

Run Me to Earth (03/18/20)

Children of the Land (02/19/20)

Life Undercover (01/08/20)

It Would Be Night in Caracas (11/13/19)

Guest House for Young Widows (10/16/19)

The World That We Knew (10/02/19)

When the Plums Are Ripe (09/04/19)

The Stationery Shop (08/21/19)

Mrs. Everything (07/10/19)

The Old Drift (05/29/19)

Boy Swallows Universe (05/01/19)

Ghost Wall (03/06/19)

Lost Children Archive (02/20/19)

The Far Field (01/23/19)

In Extremis (11/14/18)

A Spark of Light (10/31/18)

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree (10/03/18)

Lands of Lost Borders (08/29/18)

Eat the Apple (03/07/18)

The Monk of Mokha (02/21/18)

The End We Start From (01/03/18)

A Moonless, Starless Sky (10/18/17)

The Amber Shadows (09/20/17)

Reading with Patrick (08/02/17)

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