Next to Christianity and Manifest Destiny, the other great religion of the United States has always been the American Dream, the idea that anyone from any background can come to America and make it big. It’s empowered generations of newly-arrived migrants, and even people who have been in the Continue Reading
On 11th day of Christmas … I read Hester & Harriet by Hilary Spiers
Hester & Harriet look like they’re on track for another bog standard Christmas at The Laurels, the small cottage the two widowed sisters share in a small, reasonably uneventful English village. Invited to cousin George’s home where they will endure his wife Isabelle’s ghastly cooking and their insufferably insolent Continue Reading