The Moon Vow by Hazel Lin
Hazel Lin | The Moon Vow | Dr. Lien-Hua Wu, an Asian gynecologist, attempts to solve a patient’s sexual problems with her husband. She soon discovers the truth through a grueso
Fiction
The Wheel of Earth by Helga Sandburg
Helga Sandburg | The Wheel of Earth | Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve
Mountain Time by Bernard De Voto
Bernard De Voto | Mountain Time | Mr. De Voto at a lower literary level, if a more surely successful one, with a surgeon’s story and a love story sustained by a fair amount of emotiona
Bhopal Dance by Jennifer Natalya Fink
Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance | An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster–and perhaps our own
On the night of December 2, in the midst of the Reaganomic era, a
Of Lena Geyer by Marcia Davenport
Marcia Davenport | Of Lena Geyer | Well-known novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while “gossip has had many cr
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol
Cousin Bette by Professor Honoré de Balzac
Professor Honoré de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
The Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) by Sylvia Bertin
Sylvia Bertin | The Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) | Story of Paula, a member of a French provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated as a matter of course … that she wears trouse
Not One Day by Anne Garréta
Anne Garréta | Not One Day | “What’s to be done with our inclinations?” asks Anne Garréta in the first sentence of her newest book, Not One Day. The text that ensues is an explora
The Empress of the Seven Oceans by Fiona Cooper
Fiona Cooper | The Empress of the Seven Oceans | ‘It is the swashbuckling seventeenth century, and witch-burning and superstition are sweeping England. Puritanism and paranoia abound. An old soak sal