Leaving Mother Lake

Leaving Mother Lake

Rating:  Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World, by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu. Back Bay Books (2004), 308 pages. Anybody who has fantasized about what life would be like in a completely matriarchal society needs to read this...
As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me

As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me

(This review first appeared in February 2005) Rating:  As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me, by Nanci Kincaid.  Back Bay Books (2005), 384 pages. Many literary fiction readers undoubtedly missed out on this book due to the unwieldy chick-lit like title and...