New Reviews at Nimble Spirit

Review:
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison

The characters Jim Harrison imagines are largely untamed by suburban ways of life. Even as they enjoy their meals and notice sublime scenes in nature, one notes that Harrison’s creations have not been smoothed by money, business, fashion, or technology. Haunted and challenged in a number of ways, they struggle against themselves and against one another in settings of rural isolation. Read the review

Review:
The Red Thread by Roderick Townley

The Red Thread tells a story that covers a period of 500 or so years and in which the heroine, a present-day sixteen-year-old student and photographer Dana Landgrave, discovers through dreams and hypnosis that she has lived two earlier incarnations, and that events in those lives continue to have implications in her life in twenty-first-century New Hampshire. Dana’s story grabs you from the beginning and is hard to put down . . . Read the review

Review:
Saving Erasmus by Steven Cleaver

In Saving Erasmus, his brief and breezy first novel, Steven Cleaver tells the story of Andrew Benoit, a recent seminary graduate facing a choice between a big-city assignment and something that feels like banishment to a small town. True to the idea of “call,” like a modern-day Jonah, Andrew finds himself in the small town of Erasmus facing a daunting first assignment: Heed your call to be a prophet and save the town immediately, for the Angel of Death is set to destroy the faithless place in one week. Read the review