“The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston,” by Michele Moore

Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl I recall my first visit to Charleston a year or so after Hurricane Hugo.  Driving south to north along the coastal roads, I made side trips into the South Carolina Low Country where I found isolation and the remnants of the Gullah people.  I had been unbeknownst driving along and […]

“Soon,” by Pam Durban

Reviewed by Dan Sundahl Came a time I drove into old man Engebretson’s farm yard, late 1950s, southern Minnesota. It was a good bright day with a light sugary coating of snow on the ground. The old man had a 40-acre duck pond on his farm and corn rows to walk, ducks and pheasants in […]