"Connie Palmen’s Your Story, My Story is a lacerating portrait of passion and genius, both of which are gifts that can arrive with mortality hidden in their folds. It does what only a novel can do—probes beneath the “official” story to get to the dark and mysterious...
Ara and Kit, two girls in the village school, seem to have nothing in common. Ara, the elder, is large, earthy and illiterate; Kit is lean, brainy and interested in abstractions like philosophy. After they leave school Ara cannot let Kit alone - she is...
Originally published in Holland by Prometheus, The Laws is an audicious first novel that sold over 150,000 copies in the year of it appearance, 1991. Over a period of seven years, while she is a student, a young woman encounters seven men: an astrologer, an epileptic,...