Stubborn Season is precise, polished
Date of Review:
Jul.27.2002
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Pat Donnelly
Source:
The Montreal Gazette
The Stubborn Season is precise, polished … bind[s] the attention through the excellence of its sharp, precise prose, generously laced with authentic history. Davis's astute psychological observations render the two main characters insistently real … Davis refuses to succumb to the predictable …The Stubborn Season raises the bar for first novels."
“Lauren B. Davis identifies the points of light in the darkness. She describes with a beauty almost beyond words and shows human decency as a great untapped resource, but doesn't offer simple answers to complex questions. Writing just doesn't get any better than that.” -- Robert Adams, literary critic and lecturer
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About Lauren
Lauren's new novel, THE EMPTY ROOM will be published by Harper Collins Canada in May, 2013.
Davis’s most recent novel is OUR DAILY BREAD, a compassionate look at what happens when we view our neighbors as “The Other”, and the power of unlikely friendships....








