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...
Wasted

Wasted

Rating:  Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher.  Harper Perennial (1998), 320 pages. “It was that simple: One minute I was your average nine-year-old, shorts and a T-shirt and long brown braids, sitting in the yellow kitchen, watching Brady Bunch reruns, munching on a...