Lori Duff Writes
The Flood Girls “The Flood Girls” by Richard Fifield is a quirky, different kind of book, populated with unusual, flawed, and likeable characters. Rachel Flood is returning to her hometown of Quinn, Montana for a number of reasons. Her father has died, and she inherited his trailer. She also wants to make amends to complete…
About ten years ago, I had eyeball surgery which implanted contact lenses right in front of my retinas. This allowed me to go glasses free for a long time. Recently, however, my left eye decided to act up and prevent me from reading street signs in smaller fonts. So I went to the eye doctor…
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel “A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea” by Dina Nayeri is a moving, haunting novel about a girl growing up in Iran around the time of the revolution. Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are wealthy daughters of a man who owns a rice farm in Iran,…
I get it. You have some preconceived notion of the Opera being stuffy and boring and something that only rich people do after a diet of caviar and foie gras and a glass full of the desalinated tears of poor people. If you have any positive associations with it, those associations are related to Bugs…