Reading and Roaming
READING—SIOUX REVOLT IN THE WEST The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore This spare historical novel focuses on events leading up to the Sioux Uprising of 1862. It is loosely based on a memoir by Sarah Wakefield who with her children was held captive for six weeks by the Sioux Indians. In The Lost Wife, Sarah Butts, later Brinton, leaves an …
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RECENT READING Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes With the publication in 1996 of Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes shone a spotlight on one of the lovely Italian hill towns in Tuscany. Since then, “her” town of Cortona has become a tourist attraction, and she has milked the area and her life there for several other nonfiction …
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FAMILY DYNAMICS IN FICTION Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett’s latest book is just out and it’s a good one. Part of it is built around Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, long a staple of high school English classes. When I was that age and we read Wilder’s play, I thought it tedious and mostly boring. Later in life, I …
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AFTERMATH When Hurricane Idalia came barreling toward the Florida Gulf Coast, we watched, worried, and wondered from Maine. Had we been home, we would have once again landed on the doorstep of our good friend in Venice where we sheltered last year during Ian. Our little island was a lucky place. Idalia left only storm debris …
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