Book reviews written for The San Diego Union Tribune

An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas

The Alchemy of Survival: One Woman's Journey by John E. Mack, M.D. with Rita S. Rogers, M.D.

Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding by Alice Goldfarb Marquis

The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

The Bad Daughter by Julie Hilden

Ben by Max Schott

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard

The Caretakers by Bernard Mathias

The Clay That Breathes: a Novella and Stories by Catherine Browder

The County of Birches by Judith Kalman

Damage by Josephine Hart

Duck and Cover by Brenda Peterson

First Light by Peter Ackroyd

Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve

Frida by Barbara Mujica

From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo by Norma Field

Ghost Dancing by Anna Linzer

Home Bodies by Alicia Miller

I Cannot Get You Close Enough by Ellen Gilchrist

Interior Design by Philip Graham

Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry M. Long

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Look Out for Hydrophobia by Betsy Wing

Midnight Lemonade by Ann Goethe

Montana Women by Toni Volk

Mountain City by Gregory Martin

My Father, Dancing: Stories by Bliss Broyard by Bliss Broyard

Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson

Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice

Passage Home by Alison McLeay

The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel

Selected Stories by Alice Munro

A Stranger's House by Brett Lott

Sugar Cage by Connie May Fowler

Survival Rates by Mary Clyde

Surviving A Writer's Life by Suzanne Lipsett

Thirteen Senses by Victor Villaseñor

The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Undressing the Moon by T. Greenwood

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him

The White by Deborah Larsen

A Woman's Place is in the Mall and Other Lies by Karen O'Connor

Worship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories by Patricia Henley

A Year in the Cuyamacas by Leland Fetzer.