Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (Blair, 2025) is a delicately visceral interrogation of what it means to be a woman in search of herself and what it costs when every choice—and every failure to choose—reshapes everything around her. The story is set in the 1960s, in northern Hausa country, Nigeria, during the years between the […]
Authors Nell Joslin and Elaine Neil Orr: A Conversation
September 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Description of Measure of Devotion by Nell Joslin: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Civil War, this novel delves into the life of Susannah Shelburne, a thirty-six-year-old woman residing in South Carolina with her older husband, Jacob. Their son, Francis, defies his parents’ wishes by enlisting in the Confederate army, sparking bitter familial […]