from Quail Mail #638

From Nancy [Olson, owner of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC]: Occasionally I read a new work of fiction that blows me away, and Marly Youman's A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer $24) did just that. Every page in this book resonates with beautifully crafted language, a "universal melody that sings of deep loss and conciliation," and a moving story of a