Bruce Machart's striking debut is a stunning novel that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, with its crushingly tyrannical father and stark, sparse Texas landscape. This story grabs you by the throat from its first words and refuses to let go. In Machart’s hands, frontier Texas is as unforgettable a character as are the Czech … Continue reading The Wake of Forgiveness

Nine years ago, Peter Westra was 24 years old, a successful young investment banker. He was in Atlantic City to meet up with his Middlebury college buddies for a friend’s bachelor party. Just 15 hours later, he was dead--kicked to death on a sidewalk by bouncers outside a nightclub.After the Murder of My Son is … Continue reading A Mother’s Story