Maria De Landerset Gomes De Landerset Gomes itibaren San Mateo Huitzilzingo, Méx., Meksiko itibaren San Mateo Huitzilzingo, Méx., Meksiko

Here is an overlooked gem of a play, which won Glaspell the Pulitzer for drama in 1930. In fact, Glaspell was the first woman to win a Pulitzer. A family gathers to spend the last night in the home once belonging to Aunt Agatha, and Aunt Alison, who became a famous poet after her death. The Alison character is a sort of surrogate for Emily Dickinson. The family wrestles over each member's memory of Alison and her legacy of manuscripts bound in paper and thread. In a moving conclusion, long-buried secrets come to light. Glaspell's gift is dialogue and pace, and they are beautifully displayed here. How sad that this playwright is forgotten these days!

AWESOME!!!!!!

Oops!! Clicked the wrong one. I haven't read this one yet.

I'd loved Donna Tartt's first book, and was excited to read the second one. While it's not badly written, she seems to forget the plot she'd prepared in the first third of the book - the story then leads somewhere completely different, or maybe nowhere at all. I was quite disappointed. No, make that REALLY disappointed. I got so very frustrated with the story meandering through territory that did not in any way border on anyplace where it was originally headed that I skipped a third of the book and checked the ending, just to see if I could still hope for the things to get back on track. They didn't, so I gave up on the book and was extremely pleased to sell it on ebay as fast as I could.