Jane Kinney Denning reviews Just Like Mother, Anne Heltzel’s adult, modern gothic horror debut.
Plus short reviews of Snowstorm in August by Marshall Karp; And You May Find Yourself by Sari Botton; Rethinking the Ground Rules by the Hudson Valley Women’s Writing Group; Please Wait to Be Tasted by Carla Perez-Gallardo, and Wheeler; and Nothin’ But a Good Time by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock.
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews The Unwritten Book, Samantha Hunt’s reckoning with death and unfinished manuscripts.
Plus short reviews of Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show Business by Gary Bohan, Jr.; A History of Place by Mala Hoffman; A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray; The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell; and Sacred Send-offs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice by Sarah A. Bowen.