Contemporary American female writers

[pynchonoid]

I liked Ceremony a lot and recently picked up a copy
of 
Almanac of the Dead which I haven't read yet.


> Leslie Marmon Silko is
> supposed to be 
> good but I've not got to read her, yet.  Silko is
> very Native 
> American.  Barbara Kingsolver has been moderately
> good in the past 
> but she wears her politics on her book-jacket.


I parts of The Poisonwood Bible a lot, and can see why
it was such a big bestseller.

 
> Donna Tartt had a 
> real winner out a few years ago with "The Secret
> History" but her 
> subsequent "Little Friend"  was a major
> disappointment.  Annie Proulx 
> has had a couple of interesting books out - The
> Shipping News and 
> Brokeback Mountain.   Ursula Le Guin writes
> sci-fi/fantasy but it's 
> very darned good.

Second that emotion.



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