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Book review: The Maytrees

By Kate Blackwood / August 15, 2020

This book is like a tent made of the very best material and ingenious design, packing a whole dwelling down into a piece of art I am going to take with me and set up and live in again.

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Book review: Sing, Unburied, Sing

By Kate Blackwood / July 25, 2020

Every human struggle has a spiritual shadow. In the world of this book, it’s personified.

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Book review: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

By Kate Blackwood / May 22, 2020

Family history and Texas culture come together to suggest that sometimes justice does need to make an end run around the law after all.

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Book review: Reading Station Eleven during a pandemic

By Kate Blackwood / May 13, 2020

After a second reading—this one during a pandemic much less severe than the one in the book—I see more. It’s a story about gratitude. And grace. And tenacity.

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