by Do South | Nov 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The novel starts like this. “Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He’s the kind of man who points at people he doesn’t like the look of as if they were burglars and his forefinger a police...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] It was with great sadness I started reading Our Souls at Night, not because I expected the book to be morose, but because it is the last book Kent Haruf will ever write. The award-winning author died in...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] When All Fall Down opens, Allison Weiss is at the pediatrician’s office with her five-year-old daughter, Ellie, for a routine checkup. While waiting, Allison takes a magazine quiz on addiction. In the...
by Do South | Aug 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Frances, from Manhattan, is fresh out of college and on the heels of a breakup. To get away from her troubles she travels to Lofoten, a clutch of six small islands in the Norwegian Sea, just ninety-five...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Cecilia Fitzpatrick’s life is almost as spotless as her pantry. There, in the well-lit space, everything is in Tupperware containers, rows and rows of brightly colored canisters that keep her...
