Katharine Niles's Books
Jun.10.2010
One Southwestern archeological site stands between fifty year-old John Thompson and life has he has lived it so far. Full of bones and a sacred hearth desecrated in a most heartless way, the site brings him face to face with his own failings. Unable to stand it, he flees his marriage and his job to the most extreme place he knows: the Makah Indian community at Neah Bay, Washington...
Jun.04.2004
Isolation suits young Sarah Graves. As longa s she doesn't enlarge her world, her secret is safe; and as long as her secret is safe, her world is not likely to split apart. But when she learns that a boy at school has suffered terrible burns over most of his body, she cannot help but envision a friendshp based on a mutual knowledge of unspeakable pain.
The Basket Maker deftly...
For Niles, writing is a landscape in itself. She is witness to the sweet and significant details that only a person painfully acquainted with the earth and the convolutions of human relationships might notice. ”
—Craig Childs
About Katharine
I am the author of The Basket Maker, a novel that won Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Magazine (Independent Presses) in 2004. My second novel, The Book of John, was published in 2010. I have also published a book of poetry, Geographies of the Heart. I am...