Blogs in January 1970

Karma and Other Stories 1st January 1970

Short stories set mainly in Boston

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The Saint of Lost Things 1st January 1970

It is 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she loved by coming to America: her mercurial husband, Antonio, has lost his opportunity to realize the...

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The Language of Flowers 1st January 1970

A very striking novel set in modern day Northern California, the story of Victoria a young girl who has lived her life in the Californian state care system. Yet she has spend time with Elizabeth who teaches Victoria the...

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Buddhaland Brooklyn 1st January 1970

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful, quiet refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set up a temple in Brooklyn’s Little Calabria. There...

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The Tenderness of Wolves 1st January 1970

Mrs Ross, who is the narrator, is a Scottish pioneer and ex-asylum inmate, who discovers the body of a French trapper, murdered and scalped in his house near Dove River. The search for a murderer in a small Canadian...

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