Reported by Rita
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal,
Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many
generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in
Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two
old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
An uplifting story. I really liked it. - AH 5 stars
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three
generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage
girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school
in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond
classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between
them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she
is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The
explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia- back
before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and
Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents
fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers,
and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn
Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly a hermaphrodite. Spanning eight
decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's
long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed
bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of
desire.
The writing is really good. It is interesting and full of
teenage angst. I recommend it. - MH 5 stars
Other
Books Mentioned:
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and
Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and
Small-Unit Effectiveness by Earl J. Hess
The Truth about the Devlins by Lisa
Scottoline
New
Books:
Corn From A Jar by Daniel S. Pierce
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by
Michiko Aoyama
Dinner at the Night Library by Hika
Harada
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