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Elizabeth Crook

    L'approche narrative de cette auteure est profondément ancrée dans un amour d'enfance pour la littérature, nourri par une mère qui lui lisait des histoires chaque soir. Ces expériences immersives ont suscité une passion durable pour la création de récits qui transportent les lecteurs dans des mondes différents et les connectent à des personnages éloignés des leurs. Son propre processus d'écriture se caractérise par un engagement lent et délibéré envers les histoires, reflétant une profonde appréciation du pouvoir de la narration. Les œuvres qui en résultent mettent l'accent sur la résonance émotionnelle et le voyage transformateur de la lecture partagée.

    The Night Journal
    The Which Way Tree
    • A loyal brother sets out with his tenacious younger sister to avenge her mother's death at the jaws of a mountain lion in 19th-century Texas.

      The Which Way Tree
    • The Night Journal

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      3,6(1020)Évaluer

      A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt’s Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family’s legacy—a heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to read the journals. But when she concedes to accompany the elderly and vipertongued Bassie on a return trip to the fabled land of her childhood in New Mexico, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmother’s story—and soon everything she believed about her family is turned upside down.

      The Night Journal