In The Wife Upstairs, Rachael Hawkins reimagines the classic gothic novel Jane Eyre as a Southern Gothic thriller set in Alabama. It’s in some ways successful, less so in others. On the plus side, The Wife Upstairs borrows from Jane Eyre, but modernizes and twists the story in interesting ways. A lot of the base …
Part I: Jane Chapters 1 – 4 A woman, a dog-walker, walks a dog around the wealthy Thornfield Estates subdivision of Mountain Brook, Alabama. She lives in the less-affluent town of Center Point. Today, she walks Bear in the rain for Mrs. Reed. She ends up standing in the street when a slick red sports …
Prologue 1921 1934 1935 1936 Epilogue Prologue A woman narrates that she moved west in search of the American Dream. But the land turned against them, resulting in poverty and hardship. She thinks about the women of the Great Plains had do to survive… In the prologue, the narrator makes a pointed statement about how …
In Kristin Hannah’s recently released The Four Winds (published February 2, 2020), Elsa is a woman trying to raise two children on a Texas farm as they watch the lands dry out and as relentless dust storms ravage everything in sight. All around them, people pack up and leave for greener lands and jobs out …
I was really impressed by The Push by Ashley Audrain. It wasn’t a book I was expecting to like, much less one that I’d be eager to recommend to others. I actually only read it because one of my book clubs put it on the docket, and I wanted to be able to participate. I …
