Materfamilias Writes

Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of California

Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of California

Perhaps you’ll excuse me. Or perhaps you’ve learned not to expect too much here. We’ve had family visiting for the last ten days — not much reading got done, never mind writing about it. So…

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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Last fall, a phrase from something I read — I thought it might have been from Ondaatje’s Divisadero, but couldn’t find it on a quick skim through; perhaps it’s in Anne Michaels’The Winter Vault —…

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