If your holiday gift list is festooned with books, here are three shining novels to add. Your support will also cheer the independent presses that publish them.
From A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (Alternative Book Press): “Marriage could be a seesaw. If one side got off, the other would come crashing down.” A probing fictional biography of the actor who played the Munchkin Coroner in the 1939 Hollywood classic The Wizard of Oz. Order on Amazon.
From On the Shore (Vine Leaves Press): “Gershon watched her skip away in the fading light. There was more than one way to lose a child.” An emotionally charged tale of an immigrant Jewish family in turmoil when their children rebel during WWI. Order on Amazon.
From Tazia and Gemma (Vine Leaves Press): “Most of the women are paid six dollars a week, men up to two dollars more.” The heartfelt and suspenseful story of an unwed Italian immigrant who survives the 1911 Triangle Waist Co. fire and the daughter who seeks her father 50 years later. Order on Amazon.
Read more about each book in NOVELS.
