By Rilla Askew HarperCollins, $25.99, 417 pages “A little more than kin and less than kind.” Hamlet—Act 1, Scene II It is wholly fitting that the epigraph to Rilla Askew’s latest novel is from Shakespeare. Indeed, Kind of Kin is nothing if not …
By Wendell Berry Counterpoint, $14.95, 190 pages As Hannah Coulter nears the end of her life, she spends more and more time telling herself the story of her life, in order to get the details right. It’s a story of her love …
By Ken Harmon Dutton, $19.50, 275 pages Sad when the holidays are over? Keep the spirit of Christmas alive throughout the year with Ken Harmon’s The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir. In Kringle Town, not everything is holly, …
