If you promised yourself to read more this year, add these books to your reading list and resolve to support the independent presses that publish them:
From On the Shore (Vine Leaves Press): “You smart kids think you’re invulnerable. Ignorant ones have the good sense to be afraid of dying.” 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): “I was skeptical about whether Tazia could do the work, but she was as strong as any man.” 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.
From A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (Alternative Book Press): “Just wait until this war is over and you ladies is back in the kitchen.” A probing fiction biography of the actor who played the Munchkin Coroner in the 1939 Hollywood classic The Wizard of Oz. Order on Amazon.
Read more about each book in NOVELS.
