Women's Literature | Women's Studies - Interest
Mar.26.2010
Suzanne Frischkorn is a fierce and fearless poet, In Girl on a Bridge, she first upends our dainty notions of girlhood and then leads us into the wilderness of violence, madness, fear, and love -- and does so with beauty and tenderness.
--Julianna Baggott
Good citizens beware: Suzanne...
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Mar.23.2010
A fierce book of poetry based on historical and mythical saints and cannibals, including Saint Claire and Hansel & Gretel.
Reviewers say:
"it's hard to tell at times who are the saints and who are the cannibals... Hamm explores the boundaries of the body in exquisite detail; puberty,...
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Mar.04.2010
Kelly Carmichael can't seem to find her niche in life. Her father pushes her in one direction while her mother pulls her in another. Now almost thirty, she grows weary of pursuing someone else's happiness. But just when she believes she has found the perfect career and the love of her life in...
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Jan.22.2010
Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She's just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball form at the base of her throat. Diagnosed with the...
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Dec.13.2009
The bitter divorce of a "perfect couple," and its impact on the gated community in which they live, is seen through the eyes of a neighbor, Lyssa Harper, who doesn't realize the parallels between their marriage and her own.
When Lyssa befriends the husband — Harry, a former Master of...
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Dec.02.2009
The revelatory and haunting journey of a struggling single mother from South Carolina who discovers she's expecting another child. Unafraid to confront issues with no simple answers, Seitz has constructed a story of ultimate redemption in SAVING CICADAS, told through the voice of an 8-year-old girl...
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Nov.25.2009
Meet Blair Hughes, a beautiful, intelligent, and talented young woman who believes her identity is defined by her size 22 waistline. With constant scrutiny about her weight and a pattern of failed diets, Blair has given up trying to be the perfect size six and has allowed herself to fade into the...
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Nov.06.2009
"I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days," writes Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting...
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Oct.30.2009
Blossom Sterling knows she's different. She was born with a veil, a thin membrane that covered her face, and gave her a special gift. But for Blossom, the gift is so much more.
It is because of this supernatural inheritance, her life in the small town of Riddle Inn is in stark contrast to that of...
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