Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
MADE-UP
Calling Drive Your Plow a murder mystery is a bit like calling Beloved a ghost story. There is a series of unsolved murders (which—spoiler!—are solved), but the real story is in the storyteller: Janin... (Tom)
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads
by Bob Shea and Lane Smith
MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #44
One more time hearing Steph's masterful storytime rendition of this tale of a small Western town beset by bandits and saved by a young paleontologist (who arrives, slowly, on a tortoise) convinced me... (Tom)
The Marrow of Tradition
by Charles W. Chesnutt
MADE-UP Phinney by Post #56
Nearly every discussion of Chesnutt's 1901 novel, only recently acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of its time, focuses, understandably, on the real event it was inspired by: the white riot in Wi... (Tom)
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