Fiction

This book is delicately straightforward, about ordinary life in an earlier time, closely observed in copious detail.

Read this only if you want a rollercoaster of feelings, boomeranging back and forth between heartbreak and hope.

This was a meandering but engaging multigenerational family saga spanning four generations on an island off Sicily.

Marcellus, an octopus, is one of the main characters in this charming novel, and he he steals the show in this satisfying read.

I was happy to read this and delighted to find out how it ended. Especially if you are a woman, you may feel the same way.

Did I love it? No. Will I long remember it? Probably. Do I wish I could write that well? Definitely yes.

This is a book about a talented woman chemist seeking equality in the very condescending and chauvinist world of the 50’s and 60’s in California.

At 804 pages this novel is quite an undertaking, but I loved both Ead and Tané, and was glad to follow them into the Abyss, only to emerge triumphant and satisfied.

This is a diverting, circuitous, multi-layered, coming of age escapade, written extraordinarily well.

I’m always happy to read about women learning to get what they uniquely need.

This is a beautifully eloquent novel, with its poetic, evocative prose, which is sometimes funny, and often highly observant and insightful.

This is historical fiction of the enormously talented, gutsy woman who served as J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, curator, and art dealer.