Results for keyword: first novels
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A poet’s novel of the San Luis Valley
In Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, poet Aaron Abeyta explores the lives of the people who lived and loved in the long-lost town of Santa Rita in Colorado’s remote San Luis Valley
by Annie Dawid, May 28, 2007 -
Dancing to Biederbecke in Montana
In The Willow Field, his first novel, memoirist William Kittredge serves up an old-fashioned potboiler
by N P Thompson, Dec 11, 2006 -
Waiting for the tide
In The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch’s debut novel, a 13-year-old boy in the Pacific Northwest begins finding all kinds of strange sea creatures, and wonders if "maybe the earth is trying to tell us something."
by Annie Dawid, Jun 26, 2006 -
An honest take on a tough land
Ordinary Wolves, Seth Kantner’s extraordinary debut novel, is the coming-of-age story of a young man on the remote Alaskan tundra
by Patrick Farrell, Sep 19, 2005 -
The Basket Maker
The Basket Maker by Kate Niles is a searing novel of incest and compassion set in the modern Southwest
by Staff, Feb 21, 2005






