Marcia Douglas, Author, Margaret Diehl, Author Soho Press $24 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-134-0
Lilting Jamaican dialect, bits of poetic singsong and stories from creation mythology permeate the narrative of Douglas's ambitious first novel, which fluidly combines the stories of several Jamaican women. The initial narrator, Bella, a...
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Margaret Diehl, Author Soho Press $18.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-939149-31-5
Although she nearly sabotages the novel in the first chapter, where she introduces her protagonist--self-destructive alcoholic Gwen, at her worst-- Diehl soon gets back on track in an increasingly resonant narrative that candidlycandidly ? describes
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Margaret Diehl, Author Soho Press $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56947-149-4
In dissecting pivotal moments of her tragic New Jersey childhood (death and mental illness cripple her seemingly glamorous Southern-rooted family), novelist Diehl (Me and You, etc.) pieces together a sensual portrait of the artist as a young woman....
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Margaret Diehl, Author Soho Press $17.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-939149-14-8
The protagonist of Diehl's wise and witty first novel is Stella James, who was raised in New Hampshire by her grandmother, Lally Porter after her parents, who had lived with Lally after their elopement, ran away together when Stella was six. The two
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Margaret Diehl, Author Pocket Books $7.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-671-70991-4
Self-destructive Gwen weans herself from booze, works at freelance portraiture and has a secret love affair in a narrative interspersed with flashbacks to her troubled adolescence with an adored, alcoholic father. ``Diehl writes convincingly about...
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