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Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

Port Townsend, Washington, 1887. An ex-Pinkerton agent named Alma Rosales is hunting for opium stolen from her employer, criminal boss Delphine Beaumond, one of the most dangerous women in the Northwest. Also on the hunt is a dockworker named Jack Camp, a rough brawler with his own plans for the…
Neil Nyren
November 7, 2018
Nonfiction

A DNA Revelation: Mystery & Turmoil in Dani Shapiro’s Latest

Often it is a shocking revelation: the discovery that one’s heredity is not what one assumed; not what was accepted as fact. Dani Shapiro’s new memoir, Inheritance (Knopf), illuminates the feelings and issues that come along with uncovering family secrets and upending settled truth. Shapiro was puzzled but didn’t give it much thought…
Claudia Keenan
February 4, 2019
Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “True Places” Captures Identity

At the beginning of True Places (Lake Union Publishing) by Sonja Yoerg, Suzanne Blakemore, a mother of two teens, is overwhelmed by the duties that so many mothers these days feel like they must take on in order to do the job properly. As the book begins, feeling a strange emptiness…
Katie Pryal
January 3, 2019