Shadow Tag

Library Journal: Irene America is a smart, beautiful Minneapolis Ojibwe. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene uses to push volatile artist husband Gil close enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She […]

Pirate Latitudes : a Novel

The Washington Post – Ron Charles: This hilariously exciting book already reads like a film treatment, jumping from one cinematic, doom-filled episode to the next as it cuts its bloody way through the encyclopedia of piracy from "Ahoy" to "Yo-ho-ho"?As in any Crichton novel, all of this breakneck adventure is decorated with little bits of […]

The Lacuna : a Novel

The Washington Post – Ron Charles ?the most mature and ambitious [novel] she's written during her celebrated 20-year career, but it's also [Kingsolver's] most demanding?a novel of capital-L Liberal ideas?workers' rights, sexual equality, artistic freedom?Nevertheless, this rich novel is certainly bigger than its politics. It resurrects several dramatic events of the early 20th century that […]