Hunters and Gatherers (Hardcover)

from TheAmpersand

A comic send-up of woman-centric New Age culture and its practitioners that occasionally amuses but mostly falls short. Prose -- what's in a name? -- writes well, but her targets here are too easy and much of the humor too broad, mostly consisting of] one-liners that would probably work better on...

from jlparent

Satirical look at the New Age goddess-worship groups - mostly unamusing and I never 'got' the lead, Martha. She gets dumped, fired, constantly thinks negatively of herself (and others), is judgemental and narrow, fearful and joins this group on a whim, by accident. I see no growth in her or in an...

from rmckeown

Francine Prose, a relatively recent discovery of mine, has a powerful, yet interesting and quirky style. I first read her excellent non-fiction work, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. Of course, the title intrigued me, and the curious c...