The Boy Who Walked to Distant Lands Levellers Press, 2018 In a set of eleven stories, the critically acclaimed novelist Zane Kotker pulls readers into the lives of characters caught in apparently inescapable situations. “So smart, so rich with knowledge and full of feeling. Zane Kotke
A Certain Man Excerpt Thanksgiving, 1909 Their voices circled above him like a whirlwind, faster and faster until the gathered sound broke through him and into the empty space that belonged to God. He heard them telling their stories in snatches at holiday time, when the words
Bodies In Motion Excerpt Earthward What had happened to Alice in Wonderland had not been denied Sonya in Oregon. When distortions of natural phenomena were not forthcoming Sonya herself would narrow her eyelids to a slit or stare outward until her eyes grew dry in order to see ordinar
White Rising Excerpt Seed – Time and Summer In the summer woods he opened his eyes. The world did not appear. He raised his head but there was no sign of daybreak. Mist blew about his face. Beyond the pines the tidal river flapped like a great heart beating. Nearer, he heard the sound
Try To Remember Excerpt 1990 They headed out of the kitchen together, though Claire stopped and went back to return the butter to the refrigerator: It’s going to be hot today. Later on, it would be that pause she’d remember, banal and ordinary, as if in turning back she’d somehow veer
Goodnight, Ladies On her twentieth birthday Chessa’s first true love telephoned her during Christmas break to say that she was the one for him forever, but by the time she got back east he was dating a Wellesley girl. On her thirtieth she debated whether she should get divorced or pre
Goodnight, Ladies Off the Common Books, 2016 Three women who’ve turned 70 look around to find time short. How to spend these years? Nikki chops the days that remain into millions of minutes, Chessa gets a dog and Pru downsizes to a condo—only to discover that with the loss of so much
Bodies In Motion iUniverse, 2000 This novel details the daily life of a wife and mother in the early years of the 1970s when the second wave of feminism emerged. Amusing study of a young Manhattan family…The New Yorker Persuasive, unbitchy, honest and it makes its point…NYTBR S
A Certain Man Alfred Knopf, 1976 Born to an undertaker at the start of the 20th century, Charles (“Arley”) Minor grows up to preach resurrection in Congregational churches in rural New England and in the inner cities of Boston and Hartford, all while shoring up his followers be
White Rising Alfred Knopf, 1981 Here find both sides of King Philip’s War (1675-76) in which one out of ten English colonists in the New World died, while almost every man of the warring tribes (mostly Wampanoag and Nipmuck) over the age of fourteen was killed or enslaved and sent to