Kathleen B

Kathleen B

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Kathleen Basi is a novelist and musical composer who has been reading and writing for so long, she can’t even remember when she started. Her first novel, A Song for the Road debuted in 2021. Visit her at kathleenbasi.com.

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Those Pink Mountain Nights
Those Pink Mountain Nights
by Jen Ferguson
(10/18/2023)
Ferguson crafts a story so tightly interwoven and intimate in focus that each character cannot help pushing their castmates' stories forward alongside their own. The end result is an engrossing, thought-provoking, and ultimately beautiful book.
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Valiant Women
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
by Lena S. Andrews
(9/6/2023)
Women served in every branch of the U.S. military during World War II. But, like virtually every gain by women, this opportunity didn't come easily. There was frustration at every turn, and Andrews details it all: resistance and obstructionism from Congress, from the chain of command, from male enlisted troops and officers. The courage, competence, and sheer grit of the women shines through on every page.
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It. Goes. So. Fast.
It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly
(6/7/2023)
Despite the back cover blurb, It. Goes. So. Fast. is not a chronology of James' senior year. It's more "mommy blog meets seasoned NPR interviewer." Kelly knows how to ask the questions that get to the heart of the matter. Here, she turns those skills on herself. As she tries to be fully present in James' last year at home, she reflects on her entire journey as a parent and a journalist. Kelly's beautiful book begins with the commitment to live in the moment, but as she struggles to keep t
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The House Is on Fire
The House Is on Fire
by Rachel Beanland
(4/5/2023)
In a time and place in history from which the voices of powerful white men are almost all that have been preserved, Beanland chooses to center these characters, who live outside power and influence, to explore the dichotomy between the experiences of Black and white residents as well as the experiences of women and men. One striking disconnect is the lack of heroism displayed by men trying to escape the fire—at the cost of the lives of the women their cultural norms require them to protect
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Awake in the Floating City
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
by Susanna Kwan
Intimate and Beautiful (5/5/2025)
In Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan gives us a quiet, intimate story of a woman haunted by the loss of her mother as she cares for a 130-year old neighbor.

San Francisco, flooded by sea rise, comes to life in these pages, but so does San Francisco of the past. As Bo receives Mia's stories, she discovers within herself a desire to memorialize the people, places, and events now buried underwater. Reading along, we, too, are stirred by the awareness of human history upon which we stand.

This is a vivid portrait of a place, of the beauty and pain that come with the process of aging and death, and of the human spirit. Like Station Eleven, another book set in a post-apocalyptic world, Awake in the Floating City is a story of relationship, and, ultimately, of hope and beauty. Readers with an art background will find certain portions of this book particularly rewarding.
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