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Still Life with Bread Crumbs: Anna Quindlen’s Simple Yet Captivating Portrait of Female Self-Discovery

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Katrina’s Review of: Quindlen, Anna. Still Life with Bread Crumbs. New York: Random House, 2014. 272 pages. Surprisingly unfamiliar with Anna Quindlen’s prolific earlier prose when I first cracked open Still Life with Bread Crumbs, by the second page I realized what a gifted storyteller I had been missing out on. In an era when the lengthy […]

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Reaching Across the Ages: Edward Marin’s Debut Novel ‘The Orion Project’ Offers a Poignant Portrait of Modernity through the Lens of Ancient Egypt

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“Linda made a conscious effort to look at the city through the eyes of someone who, like Tonemcadu, had never seen it before. For the first time, she noticed how big, boxy, clean and gray it was. How its streets buzzed with an energy she’d always associated more with New York than Chicago.” –The Orion

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