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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

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Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her most recent book, The Nine (She Writes Press 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense, and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards, among others. Eden (She Writes Press 2017), her debut novel, won the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. Set in New England, her novels focus on familial relationships, especially the challenges mothers face when they bow to societal expectations before their own intuition.

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Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg I am looking forward to finishing Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi as well as Townie by Andre Dubus III
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg Huh, I'm not sure my life has any real plot-driving mysteries in it..... except for the fact that I find life itself a mystery... meaning 'How we end …moreHuh, I'm not sure my life has any real plot-driving mysteries in it..... except for the fact that I find life itself a mystery... meaning 'How we end up who we are and how we end up in the families we are in.'

In Eden, the character Leah is given up for adoption and finds her birth mother 50 years later. That is the type of personal mystery that plays itself out over and over again in the world. And a similar situation touched my own family's life and was part of the inspiration for the book. (less)
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My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

I loved this debut. A campus novel where a young woman has an affair with her professor that has ramifications throughout her life. Isabel, the protagonist is not a perfect girl. She is sympathetic, yes, but makes some bad choices and behaves in ways she regrets. How refreshing to read about a young woman with desire and feelings who doesn’t always do the right thing. The writing was wonderful as

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Was looking forward to loving this book. I did find the tale of the fate of Apple Island compelling and terribly sad, however the telling was more opaque and irregularly ordered than necessary. In addition, the old testament references felt heavy han ...more
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