A 65-year old woman retires to a cottage in the country after a
professional life as an anthropologist. Goes on and on about always
being an outsider, never a participant. And she continues that life
despite opportunities for jumping in.
Well-written police novel set in northeastern Iowa. Recommended by Bo upon hearing that Jen and Brooke moved to Iowa.
A beautifully spiritual book; set in 1956. A minister in Iowa is
writing a memoir for his late-in-life, young son as he faces death to
record for him what he would have told him if he had lived.
Set in Jamaica, but mainly in London during and after World War II.
Notable for the variety of voices: Jamaican man, very ambitious
Jamaican woman, British woman from the farm who made it to London, her
older husband during the war and returned to a new London.
Whimsical look at the return of Odysseus. Terrific.
It was engrossing to relive the times. Broad take on the upheavals, links political events in Europe, Mexico, U.S. Makes me want to read Cod, the Story of a Fish.