Fiction Archives

The Visitation by Michele Roberts

March 25, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Michele Roberts | The Visitation | Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexu

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

March 25, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe | Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-h

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

March 23, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Shirley Jackson | Hangsaman | Shirley Jackson’s chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite

Contract with the World by Jane Rule

March 19, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Jane Rule | Contract with the World | Six characters use Art to try and make sense of their lives and establish a relationship with the outside world. For some there is success, for other

Claudine and Annie by Colette

March 19, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Colette | Claudine and Annie | In this final novel in Colette’s famous series it is Claudine’s friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.

Claudine is

Winter Blood by John Roc

March 18, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

John Roc | Winter Blood | Two landlords – a black man and a white man – set out to evict the tenants from a run-down building in Harlem. But unexpectedly, the partners are draw

Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits by Emma Donoghue

March 17, 2015 by NorthShore Noir Press

Emma Donoghue | Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits |

Donoghue finds her inspiration for these wry, robust tales in obscure scraps of historical records: an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbi