Staff Picks: Historical Fiction

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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Coming Through Slaughter

by Michael Ondaatje
Reviewed by: Blaze (Sebastopol)

Based on the life of jazz legend Buddy Bolden, this is the most original, staggering book I've ever read. Ondaatje sees words and white space like a poet, and his language is vivid, beautiful, and brutal.


Voyage of the Narwhal by Andea Barrett

Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andea Barrett
Reviewed by: Carolina (Sebastopol)

Something for everyone here--a page-turning Arctic shipwreck misadventure, a good-hearted evocation of some of the wackier elements of Victorian culture, and a wonderfully unlikely love story.


The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker

The Mapmaker's Wife

by Robert Whitaker
Reviewed by: Lindsay (Sebastopol)

An ambitious, epic account of adventure, conquest, and the indomitable spirit of one very persistent woman's decades-long struggle to rejoin her husband.

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