In this debut novel, Eastern Kentucky University professor Nancy Jensen presents four generations of women whose lives take shape around a long-ago misunderstanding that shattered two sisters’ lives. None of the women ever knows the whole truth. Only the reader, privy to the larger story, possesses the facts that might have freed the characters from the original family schism’s long reach.
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By the time I had finished listening to the audio version of Laura Lippman’s I’d Know You Anywhere, I found even the innocuous title chilling. ”I’d know you anywhere” is a phrase condemned murderer Walter Bowman uses in a letter from Death Row to suburban wife and mother Eliza Benedict, his only surviving victim. Over twenty years earlier, Walter had kidnapped
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According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and thus into humanity; from firelessness into fire, and then into weaponry; and from seasonal mating into an
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