Enjoy Women’s History Month with some great recommendations from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT. Kathy recommends Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this insightful historical narrative, provides a glimpse into the life of Maude, a Cherokee woman in Depression-era Oklahoma. A great coming-of-age story, Maud is strong and wise beyond her years. …
My mother was a saver. Among other things, she harbored piles of dress patterns from the 1920’s and stacks of washed yogurt cups “because you never know when you might need a little container like that.” We teased her about her saving, but I also adored it that she held onto the books that enriched …
“How to ever convey in this small space how magnificent this debut fiction is? Words like mesmerizing, poetic, and true all come to mind. To sum: two farm wives, the land, what is remembered, what is sacrificed, what endures. Reminiscent of Willa Cather and John Steinbeck. Hoover’s novel is a haunting, plainsong. Winning and so …
