When a friend gave me Ariel Lawhon’s 2023 novel The Frozen River about a midwife in 1700s Maine, I slipped easily into the pleasurable rhythm of living other people’s experiences. Martha Ballard was a wife and mother in her fifties. She lived in northern Maine by a river that would freeze every winter. Her life revolved around […]
State of Terror, the political thriller by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, is a satisfying romp. Sticking close to her bailiwick, Clinton casts her heroine, Ellen Adams, as the US Secretary of State. Ellen’s girlhood friend, Betsy, functions as her Counselor. I googled whether Secretaries of State really had Counselors. Yes, they do. Both women […]
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