Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “History Is in Your Veins: Etaf Rum Examines Healing from Generational Trauma,” a review by Olivia Cash of Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye: A… Read More »Cash reviews Rum

Saturday Review: “Lifting the Veil: The Invisible World of Mental Health Care,” a review by Donna Summerlin of Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill (2026), in NCLR… Read More »Summerlin reviews Thurman

Saturday Review: “A Family by Any Other Name,” a review by Sheryl Cornett of Sharon Kurtzman’s The Lost Baker of Vienna (2025) in NCLR Online… Read More »Cornett reviews Kurtzman

Saturday Review: “From peaks to Pirates: Mysteries of North Carolina” a review by Benjamin Bradley of Carol Ann Collins The Seafarer’s Secret (2024) and Archer… Read More »Bradley reviews Collins and Sullivan

Saturday Review: “Fruit of the Vine: Poems to Savor and Sustain,” a review by Michael Beadle of Claudia Emerson’s ungrafted (2024), in NCLR Online Spring… Read More »Beadle reviews Emerson

Saturday Review: “First in Flight: The Woman Behind the Wright Brothers,” a review by Rebecca Godwin of Tracey Enerson Wood’s Katharine, the Wright Sister:… Read More »Godwin reviews Wood

Saturday Review: “Gulledge’s Love Letter” a review by Shelby Hans of Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea by Jim Gulledge in NCLR Spring 2026

Saturday Review: “Inheriting Emotional Repression: Love, Loss, and Legacy,” a review by Sterling Neill of Terah Shelton Harris’s Long After We Are Gone in NCLR… Read More »Neill Reviews Harris

Saturday Review: “Learning to Listen in Western North Carolina,” a review by Jessica Cory of John Thomas York’s The Charge … Read More »Cory reviews York and Kirkpatrick

Saturday Review: “Stories of Self-Acceptance,” a review by Mark I. West of Vanessa Brantley-Newton’s Becoming Vanessa (2021) and Maya Myers’s Not Perfect (2024), in NCLR… Read More »West reviews Brantley-Newton and Myers