Click to Buy The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson Reviewed by Philip K. Jason The world that Mr. Thompson creates in this astonishing novel has many centers of interest. It is a story of passion, of family feeling, and of spiritual testing. It is a crime story with meticulous development of trial procedure, […]
Persons Unknown, by Jake Adam York
July 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Persons Unknown By Jake Adam York Reviewed by Danielle Sellers With an epigraph from William Faulkner’s Light in August, Persons Unknown explores the concept of hardship and internal struggle. That two personalities can inhabit one body is a trope Jake Adam York weaves throughout the collection. Readers familiar with […]
Remember Ben Clayton, by Stephen Harrigan
July 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
Click to Buy Remember Ben Clayton By Stephen Harrigan Reviewed by Patricia O’Sullivan After learning that his only child, Ben, has died on a World War I battlefield in France, Lamar Clayton’s grief drives him to come face to face with the haunting memories of his childhood. Lamar commissions a statue of Ben, […]
Mississippi Cotton by Paul H. Yarbrough
July 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Mississippi Cotton by Paul Yarbrough Reviewed By Donna Meredith It might seem odd to characterize a novel that begins with a dead body found in a river as quiet, yet Mississippi Cotton, by Paul Yarbrough, flows at a gentle pace through the summer of 1951. The tenderness of the family scenes, soft […]
Catfish Alley, by Lynne Bryant
July 14, 2011 by 4 Comments
Click to Buy Catfish Alley by Lynne Bryant Reviewed by Rhett DeVane Far too often, novels set in the South settle for clichéd one-dimensional characters: vapid belles, ignorant or radical African-Americans, belligerent white males incapable of change. This is not the case with Lynne Bryant’s Catfish Alley. From the first page, the author […]