In The Company of Strangers (Talonbooks) by Mary Meigs remains one of the best, if not the very best, book(s) of the decade. If you read nothing else this year, read this one.
Review of "How It Works Out" by Myriam Lacroix
Review of "More Richly in Earth: A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod" by Marilyn Bowering
Review of "The Mayfair Bookshop" by Eliza Knight