THE WATERS: Spellbinding and brutal fiction

Fiction to lean into, to absorb, to take your time reading

Author Bonnie Jo Campbell’s newest novel, “The Waters,” is not to be missed if you like dense, provocative fiction.

My review is currently up on MER Motherhood Literature and Art magazine.

“There were herbs in the Waters of Massasauga swamp that could be rendered into medicines for just about every affliction: yarrow and plantain for bleeding wounds, elderberries and boneset for flu, willow bark for fever, and foxglove a...