Erdrich, Louise, “The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year” (Harper Collins 1995)

Every birth is profoundly original and yet plotted a billion times, too many times. We move into the narrative with …

Erdrich, Louise, “The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year” (Harper Collins 1995)

Baker, Jo. “The Body Lies” (Knopf 2019 )

All these female bodies in flux. Dying and decaying, awakening and transforming, washed by floods, ballooning, returning to the womb. …

Virginia Woolf “Women and Fiction” (Mariner, 2009)

For a novel, after all, is a statement about a thousand different objects–human, natural, divine; it is an attempt to …