Archive for April, 2017
“SC Author Takes on Border Crossings”
The story begins when Héctor tells Lilia that he’s seen a man in the village who may be a link to their missing daughter. The man, Emanuel, had arranged for an uncle to take Lilia and Alejandra into Texas. Alejandra had been left with a female coyote – as those who smuggle humans across the border are known – who was supposed to meet up with Lilia. She never did.
You can read my review of Michel Stone’s Border Child, in the April 16 edition of the News & Observer, by clicking the image below.
You can buy Michel Stone’s Border Child at Barnes & Noble
“In Story Collection, Characters Endure ‘Weather of the World’”
As exciting as Bausch’s stories can be, there’s plenty of psychological meat in them. In “Still Here, Still There,” Bausch follows up on the life of Robert Marson, the World War II soldier from his prize-winning 2008 novel Peace. Marson and former German soldier Eugene Schmidt reunite in a media event arranged by Schmidt’s grandson, Hans. During the war, Schmidt saved Marson’s life in Italy. Both men suffer health problems and share little in common other than the war, where ‘grief was the weather all the time.”
You can read my review of Richard Bausch’s Living in the Weather of the World in the April 2 edition of the Houston Chronicle by clicking the image below.
You can buy Richard Bausch’s Living in the Weather of the World at Barnes and Noble.
