Tag: Forest Avenue Press
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This Particular Happiness, a Forest Avenue Press memoir by Jackie Shannon Hollis, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
Jackie Shannon Hollis’s debut book, a memoir, braids together a variety of stories and timelines to tell a holistic tale about its author’s choice not to have children. It would have been easy to write this book as a polemic; choosing not to have children is an extremely contentious topic. However, Hollis did not come…
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The Alehouse at the End of the World, a novel by Stevan Allred, reviewed by Michael A. Ferro
Featuring a motley crew cast of misfits well-suited for a Monty Python-esque romp of mythical proportions, Stevan Allred’s new novel, The Alehouse at the End of the World, is a tale fit for our troubling modern times of tyrants, travails, and turmoil. Set in the fantasy world of the Isle of the Dead, our hero…
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The Hour of Daydreams, a novel by Renee Macalino Rutledge, reviewed by Melissa McDaniel
No matter how well we think we know someone, it is never truly possible to fully understand another person. Within the complex maze of the human soul, there will always be unknown corners and hidden chambers. In The Hour of Daydreams, Renee Macalino Rutledge examines this struggle between intimacy and closeness through a lens of…
