Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers)

Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers)By: Fiona Snyckers A feminist response to Coetzees masterwork Disgrace, and the moving story of a woman trying to put her life back together Lucie Lurie is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence, a gang rape at her fathers farmhouse in the Western Cape. In the grip of debilitating PTSD, she becomes obsessed with JM Coetzee, author of the celebrated Disgrace, a novel based on the attack she suffered. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy

But Miranda doubts the supposedly solid evidence they say they have against her sister and decides to dig deeper

and her wacky little brother

For the conflict is growing–and for this obscure mobile med unit

searching for adventure in every moment

His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father—until the night he hears Polly Catlett’s enchanting voice

And now she’s enlisted the resistant Travis and Meyer to rescue her “savings” from her partners in crime

Go soaring through the air on the flying trapeze and see how performers from all over the world come together to put on a show

Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk

fans of Maya Angelou have creative space to write their own masterpieces alongside quotes from the phenomenal poet

shy girl who somehow—in spite of Flo’s ridicule and ghastly warnings—leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world

this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts

his struggle to overcome adversity