This collection was trying too hard to follow the "academic ending" way of writing. Parachute into the short story with a snappy opening, numb the reader with a bland character doing bland things, and finish with the "academic ending" (an ending that's deliberately loose and unfinished, almost b...
I don’t think anybody needs help in figuring out how to be lost, but at one point or another we may need help figuring out how to be found, or how to find ourselves. Amanda Eyre Ward’s book, How to Be Lost, is the story of a woman in search of her lost sister who eventually finds herself. Carolin...
Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer. In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine...
Novel set in SOUTH AFRICA ("A gripping excursion into South Africa's past)The main character, Nadine, loves the thrill of chasing a good story to further her reporting career. She thrives on the adrenaline hit of the next story and is not afraid of entering the scary worlds of drugs, wars and ...
said Zelda. “My doctor prescribed it for a urinary tract infection, and I still have half the pills.”“Cipro?” I said, my mouth full of artichoke dip.“Honey,” said Zelda, “where have you been?”It was a cold, clear night in Austin, Texas. After the disgusting heat of summer, the cool was a balm. Ze...
Jane’s kids ran home by themselves, their pockets full of Jolly Rancher candies and plastic beads, while we folded the camp chairs and hauled them up Oak Street. The altitude (or maybe the festivity) was making me tired. “Remember when we used to have a float?” I said.My dad laughed. “Your mom lo...
I had searched diphenhydramine on Google, back when I cared about my health, and someone had mentioned it could lead to ringing in the ears, and someone else had mentioned that it would stop working after a while.My phone woke me out of a blank sleep. I had a crushing headache. I figured it was G...