The characters at first came across as racetrack stereotypes -- the naive girl; the wise, superstitious black groom -- and I had trouble keeping the different horses straight. Later in the book, though, the story started to come together, and the plot took on urgency. The character of Two-Tie hol...
Likes: I picked this book because it focused on such a small and overlooked niche of down-and-out horse racing in the pan handle of West Virginia around the 1970s. Who else has done that? I liked that there was a variety of people with a wide range of personalities that were forced to interact in...
"Bogeywoman" is a sensational and brilliant novel of a young girl who falls in love with her female psychiatrist. Gradually the patient and doctor develop a friendship that explodes into a love affair that results, in turn, in a voyage of self-discovery that will remind one of Dickens' "Oliver Tw...