The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
History, women at the center
The past, told by the ones usually left out.
Book 1 The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
READ IT 1789 Maine, a midwife, a body in the ice, and a trial. A real woman's diary made into a thriller with a spine. Read it.
Book 2 The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
FOR SOME A Mi'kmaq child disappears from a blueberry field in 1962. Tender, grieving, a touch overworked. Worth the ache.
Book 3 The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
SKIP IT A 1950s women's boardinghouse and a McCarthy-era secret. Competent and crowded. Pleasant, and it evaporates.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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