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Book Reviews

NCLR shares a Saturday Review Post weekly: usually a book review from the most recent or forthcoming online issue, but sometimes, in recognition of current events, from a back issue.

Wilson reviews Boyles

Saturday Review: “Debut Novel By Carolina Newcomer Offers Thrill Ride” a review by Henry L. Wilson of Bark On by Mason Boyles (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Turner reviews Mustian

Saturday Review: “Swamp Girls In Trouble: Class, Race, and The Patriarchy In The Prohibition-era South” a review by Dennis R. Turner, Jr. of The Girls in the Stilt House. by Kelly Mustian (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Colley reviews Tucker

Saturday Review: “Tripping on the Twelve Steps” a review by Sharon Colley of Bewilderness by Karen Tucker (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Smith reviews Rowland

Saturday Review: “The Stories We Tell – And Don’t Tell” a review by Julia Ridley Smith of Inside the Wolf by Amy Rowland (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Trayers reviews deGramont

Saturday Review: “An Agatha Christie Mystery – NOT Written By Agatha Christie”
a review by Shane Trayers of The Christie Affair (2023) by Nina de Gramont.

Duncan reviews Townsend

Saturday Review: “Split Identity and Shades of Local Color Writing” a review by Charles Duncan in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Jacinda Townsend’s novel Mother Country (2022)

Knotts reviews Winslow

Saturday Review: “Community as Witness in West Mills” a review by Kristina L. Knotts in NCLR Online Winter 2024
De’Shawn Charles Winslow. Decent People (2023)

Abbate reviews Rice

Saturday Review: “Poetry of Place” a review by Chris Abbate in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Forever Eighty-Eights (2022) by Molly Rice

Lang reviews White

Saturday Review: “Writing The Hurt” a review by John Lang in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Charles Dodd White. A Year without Months (2022)