Archive for March 7th, 2012
I Review Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “Birds Of A Lesser Paradise”
Megan Mayhew Bergman is a top-notch emerging writer. In this first book, “Birds of a Lesser Paradise,’’ a collection of a dozen stories, she portrays in fine realistic prose female characters balancing relationships with their fathers, mothers, and partners, as they fight their own foibles and insecurities. Her characters are strong, sensible, but vulnerable.
Bergman’s stories take place mostly in the South – on a prison farm, in the Carolina swamp, and on the road. (A North Carolina native, Bergman lives now in Vermont.) But no matter the locale or the humans involved, there’s always an animal of some sort – a dog, a bird, a cow, a wolf – that influences her characters’ lives.
Click the image below to read my review in the March 7, 2012, edition of the Boston Globe.
You can buy Birds of a Lesser Paradise at Barnes & Noble.
