It took almost half the book for me to be interested in the characters and what they were doing, but ultimately a satisfying read. Story of a female journalist in Vietnam during the war and what happens to her and her photographer after they are abducted by Viet Cong. Very moving relationships ...
Daniel Isn’t Talking, by Marti Leimbach is a first-person narrative of Melanie Marsh’s life. She is American, married to Stephen and living in England. A stay at home mom, Melanie enjoys her days with her children, Emily (four) and Daniel (three), until the day Daniel is diagnosed with autism, ex...
The leaves of the tree are glossy and dark at the top, but yellowing and a different shape altogether at the base, and they smell. The tree stinks so that it is an act of faith to eat anything that comes from it. The first time she ate one of the fruits it was Son who brought it to her, pushing h...
She stubbed a toe early on and kept re-stubbing it for miles afterward, wincing each time she did so. She peeled dried blood from her lips, picked a clot of blood from one nostril, squinted into the night with gritty eyes. She’d already been tired when she started and now she was more tired still...