Shelter from the Storm Project [1]
Here's the concept: Each of us has a small cache of books we know and esteem that even other readers like us likely don't know—our discoveries, books we feel a special need to keep out of the clutches of oblivion. I invite you to recommend one.
The details:
One per subscriber [for now].
Tell us why, in one sentence.
When there's enough for a list, I'll post.
You can have your name attached, or not—up to you.
I'll keep post this note [and the Birth Year Project] below my main posts.
The Other Side of the Mountain, by Michel Bernanos. A slow-churning, progressively gripping, surreal journey into the wilderness of the human heart whose ending stills mine with each reading.--Ron Antonucci
Martha Moody by Susan Stinson—a sexy literary western originally published in 1995, republished by Small Beer Press in 2020, still massively underappreciated—is at its heart a story of two women falling in love, but is also about myth-making in the American West and about a woman finding her voice and independence through writing.