Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Cheryl Cornwell

This is a highly ambitious work for any author or translator to undertake. Detailing life in rural China from 1940-the post-Mao era, Big Breasts and Wide Hips chronicles the lives of mother and her nine chidren. Mother is a symbol of female empowerment.This overt female prowess is strikingly different from the portrayal of women in fiction during similar periods in Chinese history. Due to her husba... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Some sequels aren't sequels at all. In this grace-haunted elaboration of her previous novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson pursues the intertwined history of the families of Reverend Boughton and Reverend Ames, concentrating this time on the fraught return of Jack Boughton, deeply troubled prodigal, coming back to his seed-ground for the first time in two decades. This author's is a long-breathed intimat... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Nancy Scheemaker

I don't typically read Mysterys - but was immediately captivated by this one. The Tenderness of Wolves won the U. K.'s Costa Award, an award considered one the U.K.'s most prestigious literary honors. Stef Penney surely has proven her storytelling abilities here, by creating vivid, unpredictable characters set against the awesome raw wilderness landscape of late 19th century Canada. I especially enjoyed t... read more>>>