Mmmm...If you are looking for 'nutritional' fiction reads, you won't find an empty calorie in any of the following:
Louise Erdrich's 13th novel, The Plague of Doves, revolves around an unsolved murder of a farm family in Pluto, North Dakota, a white town bordering an Ojibwa reservation. Years later, history and human relationships are still complex...
Pulitzer Prize* winner Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies*, The Namesake) offers her latest, Unaccustomed Earth. This collection of eight stories speaks to cultural identity (the author is a Bengali-American), cultural influences, and bridging the gap between parents and children with very different ideas and cultural attachments.
Annie Proulx (Pulitzer for The Shipping News and major fame for Brokeback Mountain) returns with the third volume in her 'Wyoming stories' series, Fine Just the Way It Is. All about life in the American West, Proulx's stories are historical and contemporary fiction at the same time.
