The Kitchen God’s
Wife
Amy Tan
Find yourself identifying with the young wife and mother –
frustrated and stressed with two daughters, a husband, a mother from another
time and place – rushing about and attempting to bridge the gap between old
Chinese culture and new American ways.
Suddenly your mother, known as Winnie, not only pulls the rug out from
under you, but the scales from your eyes.
Consider China,
thousands of years old, steeped in Confucian tradition, where men “rule” the
wife and children. China,
where women have no rights, and are considered merely property of their
husbands. The time is the 1930s during a
time of civil uprising and then Japanese invasion. Where Winnie doggedly perseveres against all
odds through horror, and, improbably, survives to tell the story.
The Alienist
Caleb Carr
A dark, gruesome and intriguing ride back to the turning
point in our nation’s history of crime – when forensic science is born through
the efforts of a hodge-podge group gathered under the auspices of none other
than Theodore Roosevelt, New York’s Police Commissioner. Not only will this book hold your interest,
and stand your hair on end, but it will trigger an interest to read more about
the people and the times Mr. Carr introduces in this page turner. I had a hard time putting it down!
Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler
“I’m dying” are the first two words in this fast paced,
intense novel that had this reader beginning to hold her breath by page 3 and
sensing terror by page 16. The story of
a mysterious boy stands on its own; but there are layers of truths and
speculation to the story that the reader is left to discover on her own. Or not.
Tension and mystery abide on every page with a strong dose of the
supernatural throughout. One is left
with a sense that the last page is not truly the end of the story.
