Benjamin Alire Saenz won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction this year with his collection of haunting short stories: "Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club". Saenz uses this fictional bar in Juarez, Mexico as a catalyst for his stories about life, love, loss, and hope. I am normally not a big short story fan but these were exceptionally good.
"Blood Sisters" by Sarah Gristwood was full of interesting if not terribly new information for me about the women behind the Cousin's War, or the War of the Roses. Elizabeth Woodville, her daughter, Elizabeth of York, Margaret of Anjou, Margaret of Burgandy, Margaret Beaufort, Anne Neville: Gristwood showed how they worked behind the scenes of history to influence the men in their lives.
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