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Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants.
by Don Waters,
Sep 14, 2009
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In Michelle Huneven's novel Blame, a woman tries to deal with her guilt after a drunken-driving accident.
by Hillary Rosner,
Sep 14, 2009
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In Rick Collignon's new novel, Madewell Brown, the long-ago disappearance of a black man from a small New Mexican village is investigated by his granddaughter.
by Tania Casselle,
Jul 21, 2009
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In his second novel, So Brave, So Young, So Handsome, Leif Enger takes the reader on a journey across the American West, circa 1915.
by Janice Gable Bashman ,
Sep 01, 2008
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In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant
intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The
California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously
toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
by Tanya Lee,
Jun 23, 2008
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In her first novel, Jackalope Dreams, Western writer Mary
Clearman Blew gives us a tale of the contemporary West that rings
both sad and true.
by Annie Dawid,
May 26, 2008
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In Charlotte Bacon’s novel, Split Estate, a damaged
New York family seeks refuge and renewal on a Wyoming
ranch.
by T.K. Dalton,
Mar 31, 2008
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In Five Skies, novelist Ron Carlson tells the terse and
occasionally poetic stories of three emotionally damaged men
working in Idaho for the summer.
by T.K. Dalton,
Mar 03, 2008
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In The Empanada Brotherhood, his 11th novel, New Mexico
author John Nichols pares his often-overloaded prose to the bone to
tell a unique coming-of-age story set in Greenwich Village in
1960.
by Malcolm McCollum,
Dec 24, 2007
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Sarah Bird’s well-written novel The Flamenco Academy
weaves the history of this dramatic dance form into a obsessed
young woman’s search for identity.
by Margaret Foley,
Nov 12, 2007