How It All Began

HOW IT ALL BEGAN I can’t say why it has taken me so long to read a Penelope Lively novel. I can say I’m sorry it took so long. Our Northern CA book club which has been hosted by the Clayton Community Library for almost ten years, as a way of saying “thanks,” asked the […]

girlchild

GIRLCHILD I am of two minds as I write this review of tupelo hassman’s girlchild. I admire this novel enormously, but I found its content distastefully disturbing. Hassman has written a tour de force that captures the imagination of a troubled young girl as well as any similar novel I have read. Like J. D. […]