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by Andrew Hedglin

“The secret to a happy ending,” Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers once sang, “is knowing when to roll the credits.”

Cameron Harris was a one-time high-school football phenom in Biloxi who lost his mother in a car accident, and then nearly lost his home to Hurricane Katrina. He enlisted in the Army, only to be paralyzed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. In what can only be described as a miracle, he suddenly regains the ability to walk four years later. The Catholic church begins an investigation to certify this as an official miracle and a reality television show is soon set to premiere about Cameron’s new life.

Any feature journalist or newspaper reporter worth his or her salt would stop the narrative right there. But he novelist Jonathan Miles, in his new faux documentary Anatomy of a Miracle, knows this story is just beginning.

Cameron’s miracle sets into motion a chain of outwardly expanding satellites struggling to make sense of this cosmic anomaly, to figure out what it could mean to live in a world where miracles might be real. First, there is Cameron’s 91 year-old black neighbor Eulalie Dooley who needs him to pray for her grandson. Then it spreads to Lê Quynh and Hat, the financially-strapped Vietnamese immigrants who own the convenience store wherein Cameron gets healed and who stand to benefit from the resulting publicity. Next, to Dr. Janice Lorimar-Cuevas, Cameron’s rational, skeptical VA doctor who is on the emotional run from her fabulist Delta father. On to Scott T. Griffin, the Southern mythos-obsessed reality television producer who knows a great story when he sees one. And further, to Euclide Abbsscia, the bemused Vatican investigator who is hired to find out the circumstances that surround Cameron’s miracle and his past. The ripples go ever onward and over Cameron and his devoted older sister and caretaker, Tanya.

If that sounds like a lot of names to keep up with, don’t worry. Miles fastidiously constructs all the characters in this community of Cameron. They all have complex histories and motivations. Characterization and setting are perhaps this finely crafted novel’s forte.

Cameron has always had a private, repressed personality, so the spotlight only begins to settle on him when his status as a spiritual celebrity is interrupted by a very public bar fight captured by the TV cameras. Cameron then is forced to reckon with his biggest secret that will threaten not only his own reputation, but the faith of many others looking to him.

Anatomy of a Miracle is a fantastic story that continually managed to surprise me. Just as I thought I had figured out what type of book I was reading, the story shifted to encompass something else. It always returned to Cameron as its axis, though. I would recommend this book especially to fans of The Nix by Nathan Hill.

I think the image I’ll keep coming back to, as its most lasting impression, is toward the very end, when Cameron visits his local parish priest Father Ace. Cameron is trying to negotiate a truce between himself and the church (and, symbolically, the public) that had drawn him in close as a sign of God’s work, then spat him back out as imperfect. Although unsuccessful, Cameron at least manages to draw a truce between himself and his very nature, defiantly and finally proclaiming his wholeness:

He wheeled around and faced the open church door, the flooded veins of his neck surging. “I’m not living in a state of grace?” he said aloud, unconsciously shifting from foot to foot in a defiant shuffle-step every one of his lower body’s nerves thrumming and twitching his voice climbing from a choke to a shout. “I’m not? I’m not?”

Jonathan Miles will be Lemuria on Tuesday, March 20, at 5:00 to sign and read from Anatomy of a Miracle. Anatomy of a Miracle is one of Lemuria’s two March 2018 selections for its First Editions Club for Fiction.

Undeclared: ‘The English Major’ by Jim Harrison

By Former Lemurians

On March 13, 2018

In Fiction

By Katie Magee

If you know John Evans, Lemuria’s owner, then you know that he is a huge fan and friend of Jim Harrison. A few months back, John mentioned that he was planning on re-reading Harrison’s stuff. I had not read any, so I asked if I could tag along on his little literary adventure. John obliged and the first leg of our trip was The English Major, a novel Harrison published in 2008. This book is the story of a retired English teacher-turned-farmer, Cliff, whose wife, Vivian, decides she is going to leave him for someone else.

english major Cliff, having become increasingly disappointed in the names of the states and names of the state birds in the United States, decides this is a perfect time to travel around the entire country and rename both of these things. With him, he carries a puzzle of the fifty states and as he leaves each state he tosses the puzzle piece in a place of his choice.

Somewhere about Montana, Cliff and an old student of his, Marybelle, decide they should meet up. This meeting leads to Marybelle traveling with Cliff for a little while. Marybelle is an extremely estranged woman with an unhealthy obsession with her cellphone and a fictional son that she speaks of as if he is real. Cliff’s trip is supposed to help him figure out his next step in life, figure out what to do with the rest of his time, but Marybelle very much hinders his soul search.

Besides Marybelle, we spend a good but of time with Cliff’s friend AD (Alcoholic Doctor) who he goes on a fishing trip with in Montana. Along the way, we also meet Cliff and Vivian’s son, Robert, who is a big shot in San Francisco. To me, the most interesting visiting characters you get to know are Bert and his girlfriend Sandra. Bert owns a snake farm and Sandra is an ex-meth addict who sometimes shoots coyotes out of the upstairs window.

Cliff, eventually returning back to Michigan where he started his journey, seems to have come to terms with his new life. I so thoroughly enjoyed traveling around the states with Cliff and meeting the various interesting people he has shared his life with. If you are like me and you haven’t read any Harrison, this book is a wonderful introduction to Jim’s world. If you are like John and you have read all the Harrison that is out there…twice, pick up this one for a third time.

Get Your Freekeh On!: ‘The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook’ by Salma Hage

By Former Lemurians

On March 8, 2018

In Cooking

by Guy Stricklin

It was my father who encouraged me to cook. I was nine years old when I first made him m’juderah (page 208), a dish of lentils cooked with rice and covered in fried onions. He said, “My darling, that’s delicious, you are such a lovely cook!” I am not sure how truthful he was being but I believed him at the time and there began my love of cooking.

mideast veggie cover

Salma Hage’s father was certainly correct. The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook is overflowing with beautiful photographs of delicious and absolutely approachable recipes perfect for the new initiate into global flavors and a vegetarian diet. Hage’s book offers a easy and healthy way to explore new territories of taste through classic (and vegetarian) middle eastern dishes.

Most ingredients can be found at any grocery if not already in your pantry and anything else is certainly available at the nearest mediterranean grocery (Aladdin Grocery if you’re in the Jackson area). The real magic comes from her beautiful combinations of flavors. Even familiar staples are elevated to staggering and mouth-watering heights (e.g. cardamom oatmeal and rosewater pancakes with pistachio and honey).

My wife and I have been cooking through some of Salma Hage’s recipes, and I want to tempt you with a couple of our favorites so far:

carrots cilantro seseame seeds

A deceptively simple and delicious combination of roasted carrots, cilantro, and sesame seeds.

chickpea and freekah salad

A rich grain-salad containing freekeh (a delicious nutty grain new to us and available at Aladdin), olive oil, eggplant, garlic, parsley, mint, chickpeas and sun-dried tomatoes.

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A few weeks ago my wife snapped this photo of a memorable dinner that included roasted beets with lebneh and mint, spinach fattoush, and baba ganoush from Hage’s cookbook.

I’ll leave you with a few recipes I can’t wait to try:

Blood orange juice with pomegranate and rosewater
Almond Hummus
Fava bean and mint falafel
Stuffed zucchini in yogurt
Pistachio meringues with rose cream
Anise and sesame cookies
Cardamom banana cake

Learning to See Beyond the Mountain: ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover

By Former Lemurians

On March 1, 2018

In Biography/Memoir, Culture

by Abbie Walker

Let me start off by telling you that Educated by Tara Westover is the best memoir I’ve ever read! This captivating and inspirational story about a girl breaking free from her family’s ideals to pursue an education will stay with you for a long time—perfect for fans of The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors.

educated Tara Westover tells the true story of growing up on a mountain in Buck Peak, Idaho with her eccentric family. But eccentric doesn’t even begin to cover this cast of characters. Tara’s father, a zealous Mormon and self-proclaimed prophet, is convinced of the Illuminati and Y2K. Tara and her 6 older siblings spend time canning food and burying guns in preparation for the “end times.” Their mother, who turned her back on her strict and proper upbringing to marry Tara’s father, is a midwife and herbalist.

Bipolar and paranoid about the government’s control, Tara’s father forbids doctors, public education, and a manner of other “worldly” things, leaving the family practically isolated from normal society. Tara doesn’t receive a birth certificate until she is 9 years old, and even then there is debate about the day she was born. She and the rest of her siblings grow up working in their father’s scrapyard and helping their mother make healing tinctures in the kitchen.

From a young age, Tara struggles to accept her father’s bizarre rules. Dance classes are filled with “harlots,” and antibiotics can cause infertility. Tara says her father convinced them that their family were the only “true Mormons.” Any opinions that contradicted these rulings were met with religious lectures or silent disappointment.

But Tara can sense that there is a whole world beyond the mountain, waiting to be known. Her brother Tyler is the first to leave the family in pursuit of an education, which sparks Tara’s own desire to learn. Without any formal education, she teaches herself enough algebra and grammar to pass the ACT and get accepted to Brigham Young University.

At first, Tara struggles to immerse herself in the foreign world of the classroom. She’s never heard of the Holocaust or the Civil Rights Movement, has never studied for a test, and has trouble connecting with other students who appear as “gentiles” to her. But after receiving a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Tara discovers the power of education to “free the mind” and realizes she can thrive as a student, despite her upbringing and “otherness.” She goes on to earn an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, and a visiting fellowship at Harvard, before being awarded a PhD in history from Cambridge.

But the more she learns, the more Tara is distanced from her family. She becomes even more of a stranger when she tries to call out the abuse of her older brother “Shawn” (a pseudonym), leaving Tara torn between her family and her own beliefs.

This story reads like a novel. Westover beautifully captures the complexity of family. Her parents and the world they created for their children seem almost too bizarre to be real, which keeps you turning the page. That question of how to love family when you no longer see the world the same as they do is a struggle that I found fascinating and relatable. Tara’s journey to get an education made me appreciate my own education even more. It’s not so much about the classes or the actual degree that define Tara’s education—It’s the freedom that comes with knowledge.

“You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.”

‘An American Marriage’ powerfully illuminates nature of human will

By Former Lemurians

On February 26, 2018

In African-American, Fiction, Southern Fiction

By Kelly Pickerill. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (February 25)

Tayari Jones’ fourth novel, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill), quickly reaches its inciting incident. 9781616201340-2T Newlyweds Celestial and Roy drive from their home in Atlanta to visit Roy’s parents in Eloe, Louisiana. Tension between Celestial and her mother-in-law makes the young couple decide to rent a hotel room rather than stay at the house. At the hotel, an argument between the couple sends Roy out of their room for less than an hour, an hour that will determine the course of both of their lives.

That night, a woman at the hotel is raped, and she accuses Roy, with whom she had a brief encounter earlier in the evening at the ice machine. Despite a lack of physical evidence, Roy is convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison. After Roy serves five years of his sentence, a lawyer hired by Celestial’s family succeeds in getting Roy’s conviction overthrown.

The novel then explores the consequences those five years have on Celestial and Roy’s marriage. As the novel progresses, Jones manages to avoid many tempting paths. An American Marriage does not become an agenda-driven indictment of the failings of America’s criminal justice system, particularly involving black men.

Jones also frees her characters from the pitfalls stereotypically associated with black incarceration: drug abuse, undereducation, and poverty (Roy comes from a boostrap family, but he attended college and is on his way to becoming a moderately successful executive; Celestial, on the other hand, comes from new money, hasn’t wanted for anything, was given the resources and encouragement to embrace her creativity, and is beginning to break out as an artist who makes unique, high-end dolls).

When Celestial takes comfort in her neighbor and childhood friend Andre several years into Roy’s incarceration, and they eventually become engaged, the novel doesn’t become a character study or a bereft or cuckolded husband.

Instead, moving forward and backward through time, Celestial, Roy, and Andre in turn tell their stories. They each tell the story of what they want now that Roy has been freed, and what happened in the past that brought them to this point.

An American Marriage powerfully illluminates the nature of human will–how it adapts, but sometimes breaks, how it can transform, or be denied or asserted, and what makes it stronger. There are consequences to every one of our choices, large and small, that we make every day. And those choices affect who we are fundamentally. Though what happens to us can often be out of our own control, who we are is, ultimately, made up of our choices–of what we decide to do with the cards we’ve been dealt.

Tayari Jones will be at Lemuria on Monday, February 26, at 5:00 p.m. to sign and read from An American Marriage. An American Marriage is the February 2018 selection for Lemuria’s First Editions Club for Fiction.

‘An American Marriage’ weds the personal, the political, and the poetic

By Former Lemurians

On February 22, 2018

In African-American, Fiction, Southern Fiction

by Trianne Harabedian

Every so often, I get to be the first person at Lemuria to read a book that I know is going to be wonderful. 9781616201340-2T I jumped on our advanced reader copy of An American Marriage by Tayari Jones because I had seen it advertised everywhere. The story looked intriguing, the blue and golden cover is gorgeous, and I was excited. Then the news came out that Oprah had picked it for her book club, so the attention on this novel and Tayari Jones skyrocketed. And as someone who read the book *before it was cool*, I’m here to tell you that it is absolutely worth the hype.

Told from all three perspectives, the story of Celestial, Roy, and Andre is complicated. Celestial and Roy are still in the honeymoon phase of their marriage when Roy is arrested and sent to prison. Everyone knows he didn’t commit the crime. But as a black man in a legal system overrun with stereotypes, he is sentenced to twelve years even without solid evidence. As Roy mourns the loss of his whole life, Celestial turns her pain into artistic, handcrafted dolls. Letters keep the couple close at first, but life moves on quickly. And whenever Celestial needs support, her childhood friend, Andre, is there.

Celestial, Roy, Andre, and their stories captured my heart. But the storytelling stole my breath. Tayari Jones’s writing moves like a river, hurrying readers along with little effort on their part. It feels simplistic and uncomplicated, yet the undercurrents of the story are incredibly complex and the writing itself holds the reader afloat with invisible strength. I loved the way the novel focuses on the characters themselves, on their inner thoughts and feelings and turmoil. The plot progresses gently, so I wanted to know what would happen but was more caught up in emotions.

It would have been easy for Tayari Jones to turn this novel into political propaganda in hopes of making a point or benefiting from the current political climate. Instead, this is a story about people. While their backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses are important, they are simply part of the larger tale. And instead of focusing on the developing love triangle, this is a story about families and the ripple effects of injustice and tragedy.

This novel went beyond my expectations. Complex characters, beautiful writing, and a story with just enough ebb and flow, Tayari Jones and An American Marriage certainly deserve all of the publicity and praise.

‘Hidden History of Jackson’ educates, haunts, inspires

By Former Lemurians

On February 20, 2018

In Southern History

by Andrew Hedglin

I’ve lived almost almost all of my life in the Jackson area, but by my own admission, I know too little of its rich history. In fourth grade, I took a Mississippi history class, but at a private school in the suburbs, the curriculum wasn’t concerned with teaching much about Jackson, or anything especially problematic.

hidden history jxn Perhaps others among you received a more comprehensive education at your own schooling or by your own volition, but for anybody who considers themselves a true Jacksonian, I cannot recommend highly enough Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett’s Hidden History of Jackson. It’s published by the History Press, purveyors of, among other tomes of local history, 2016’s well received The Civil War Siege of Jackson by Jim Woodrick.

Hidden History goes out of its way to deny itself as a comprehensive chronicle, but even at a slim 144 pages of text (several more pages of well-documented sources follow the narrative itself), the book is packed with Jackson history at moments fraught with consequence. Reading it, you will come across the men with names that continue to label our shared landscape: LaFleur, Hinds, Dinsmore, Manship, Galloway, and (shamefully) Barnett. It even details the area’s encounters with its namesake, Andrew Jackson himself.

Foreman and Starrett prove themselves up to the historian’s task, documenting with primary sources and searching for the truth, whether it glorifies, damns, or merely humanizes its subjects. Of particular interest to me were the sections of Jackson’s founding as a trading post near the Natchez Trace, its prohibition battles preceding the nation’s own, Theodore Bilbo’s plan to relocate the state’s main universities all to Jackson, and a soulful coda about one of Jackson’s unassuming treasures, Malaco Records.

Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff” was recorded on Northside Drive at Malaco Records

Hidden History weaves in tales of the Choctaws, confederates, churchmen, criminals, civil engineers, and civil rights champions that helped shaped Chimneyville into what it has become today. If you have been around long enough to remember personally much of the last section (detailing the civil rights struggle and the Easter flood of 1979), it will give you a chance to revisit where your personal history and the city’s itself converge. Perhaps the book’s greatest achievement is to re-kindle my interest in the history of my hometown. I urge all of you to pick up a copy of Hidden History of Jackson and experience the stories that Jackson contains for yourself.

Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett will be at Lemuria on Saturday, February 24, to sign copies of Hidden History of Jackson. Copies can be ordered and pre-ordered at Lemuria’s online store.

Family hunts fresh start on the frontier in Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Great Alone’

By Hillary

On February 15, 2018

In Fiction

When I first started working at Lemuria, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah was all the rage. Reader after reader was coming in asking for a copy either for themselves or, if they had already read it, for a friend. I quickly learned where her books were located in the store and because I hadn’t read her before, how to hand sell them. Which got me interested….So, when I heard that she was writing another book, I grabbed an advance copy to get a head start on the reading rush…and I’m really glad I did!

Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone is a powerful, compelling story of survival — survival both of the natural elements and of the human spirit. The year is 1974, and 13-year-old Leni Allbright is not your average teenager. She lives with her devoted mother, Cora, and her abusive father, Ernt, who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam and has never been the same since.

Not only has Ernt changed, but America is changing after the war as well, and Ernt thinks their best chance at a fresh start is to move off the grid, to America’s last frontier—Alaska. The family leaves everything behind to start over on their own, away from the government and hopefully away from Ernt’s abusive past.

The Allbrights quickly learn that Alaska is a harsh place to live, in summer or in winter. Wild animals are abundant, the elements are unforgiving, and people aren’t always on your side.

Leni is one of a handful of kids that live in the small Alaskan town they move to. She begins to learn what it is like to work for food, comfort, and well being. She makes a friend who becomes her lifeline, and begins to settle into their new life with hope. Leni and her mother Cora finally feel that they have truly started fresh and can move on as a family.

Grizzlies, wolves, and dropping temperatures are the worries outside of the family’s cabin, but as Ernt’s battle with his demons rages on, it’s no safer inside.

Kristin Hannah has pulled together mental illness, survival, love, abuse and family in The Great Alone. The result is a beautifully descriptive, heart-wrenching adventure.

Signed first editions of The Great Alone are still available at Lemuria.

Border Patrol Perspicacity: ‘The Line Becomes a River’ by Francisco Cantú

By Former Lemurians

On February 6, 2018

In Culture, Nonfiction

by Abbie Walker

Lately, I’ve been on a nonfiction kick. There’s something about a true story that engages and connects me more than any other genre. It’s a chance to take part in a conversation that’s happening in the world, allowing the reading experience to go beyond me and the book I’m holding.

One such conversation I feel like I’m not that knowledgeable about is immigration. I hear a lot of things, but haven’t really tried reading about the topic myself. So when The Line Becomes a River fell into my hands, I knew it was a chance for me to start listening to that conversation more closely.

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border is the true account of Arizona native Francisco Cantú, who served as an agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008-2012. His retired park ranger mother thought he was crazy when he told her that he’s going to go work at the border, but Cantú is determined to immerse himself in a place he has spent the past few years studying.

The book is structured into three parts. The first two are comprised of vignettes about Cantú’s work with the border patrol, both out in the field and behind a desk. Taken from his journal entries during those years, he writes about rescuing stranded migrants out in the desert, tracking drug smugglers, and researching the Mexican cartels. These snapshots of life along the border paint a vivid picture of a place few really understand.

Cantú’s experience proves that things aren’t always black and white out at the border. The numerous characters he encounters cross between countries with all kinds of intentions, and Cantú often struggles to make sense of his duty to his job and his moral duty. Plagued by strange dreams, he fears losing his humanity in a profession where the line between guilty and innocent is often a thin one.

The third part of the book has the strongest narrative and was what really sealed the story as a winner for me. It follows Cantú after he leaves the Border Patrol and is working at a coffee shop. His friend, José, gets detained coming back to the U.S. after visiting his dying mother in Mexico. José, though an undocumented migrant, is a hard worker with a family and an entire community that rallies to support him during his trial. Cantú offers a realistic and heartbreaking account of what families like José’s go through.

Cantú’s writing is strong. I love how he blends in the history of the border, as well as Spanish dialect and local color to make the narrative more authentic. Cantú is anything but preachy, letting his personal encounters do most of the storytelling, hoping that his internal conflict stirs something in the reader as well.

I really enjoyed Cantú’s interactions with his mother in the book. The daughter of a Mexican immigrant, she acts as a voice of reason and great contrast to the harsh environment that Cantú is being exposed to on a daily basis.

I think we can all relate on some level to Cantú, who at first wants to ignore what happens to people once he rescues them from the desert and delivers them to detention. But, as is the case with his friend, José, it’s not so easy to ignore the outcome once you or a loved one is put in that situation.

Overall, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about what is happening on the border or anyone who thinks they know. It’s an eye-opening book that humanizes a minority in a tension-filled political climate.

Join the conversation: Francisco Cantú will be signing copies of The Line Becomes a River at Lemuria on Monday, April 9 at 5:00 pm. The Line Becomes a River has been selected for Lemuria’s First Edition Club for Nonfiction Readers.

Reality Sent Reeling: ‘Woman in the Window’ by A.J. Finn

By Former Lemurians

On February 1, 2018

In Mystery

The last couple of years has seen an upswing in “missing woman” fiction, leaving me considering two things: why are we so excited about missing women and when would the embers of trend’s durability finally burn out? Then I picked up A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window. I said, “Self?” and myself said, “Hmm?” And I replied, “Sis, this book is good. It’s pretty good…. I mean, it’s REALLY GOOD.” And before you question my sanity, I let you in on a not-so-secret secret: I often have conversations with myself about something that speaks to me, or rather, enraptures me. Besides, once you begin reading this fast-paced psychological thriller, you’ll not only question the narrator’s sanity, you’ll be critiquing your on perspective about the world around you, the validity of your memories, and your own perception of the people we probably talk to the least: our neighbors. Oh, and if you’re a cinephile like me, this book will give you all the feels for Alfred Hitchcock’s most popular films.

Woman opens with Anna Fox, a former child psychologist confined to her New York City apartment because of agoraphobia, a type of anxiety disorder where a person fears places or situations that may be difficult to escape. But not only is she virtually imprisoned because of her condition, she is bound by the shame of not engaging with the outside world. She maintains relationships with her husband and daughter via telephone and feels guilty because she isn’t emotionally and physically available to them. Her only solace is watching film classics like Vertigo and Rear Window, spying on her neighbors with her Nikon, playing online chess, and counseling others in agoraphobia support chat rooms.

stewart camera

Not to mention mixing medication and guzzling endless glasses of Merlot. Then the Russells move in across the street, and Anna is immediately drawn to them: a perfect family that mirrors what used to be hers. But after a friendly visit from Mrs. Russell, Anna’s daily spy session from her bedroom window is turned upside down when she witnesses something ghastly in the Russells’ living room. Or did she?

Finn is a master at building the stifling world that has become Anna’s home and her very being. From playing out scenes throughout the day through tightly woven short chapters, to developing Anna’s internal monologue, Finn left me holding my breath and wondering what was going to happen next. Anna Fox is undoubtedly one of the most unreliable narrators of I’ve ever come across, spinning in a haze of what amounts to drug and alcohol abuse. With that being said, Anna is not just a caricature of emotionally instability; she is fraught with complexity and is a mirror of our own anxieties about who we are, how we see ourselves, and what we believe about others.

This page-turner kept me on edge and fed my love of both books and film. If you haven’t guessed it already, I highly recommend this ode to Hitchockian mystery.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have another conversation with myself. I’ll tell you about it later.

Tag: Staff Blog (Page 8 of 20)

The Spectacular Perils of Grace: ‘Anatomy of a Miracle’ by Jonathan Miles

Undeclared: ‘The English Major’ by Jim Harrison

Get Your Freekeh On!: ‘The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook’ by Salma Hage

Learning to See Beyond the Mountain: ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover

‘An American Marriage’ powerfully illuminates nature of human will

‘An American Marriage’ weds the personal, the political, and the poetic

‘Hidden History of Jackson’ educates, haunts, inspires

Family hunts fresh start on the frontier in Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Great Alone’

Border Patrol Perspicacity: ‘The Line Becomes a River’ by Francisco Cantú

Reality Sent Reeling: ‘Woman in the Window’ by A.J. Finn

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