Indiana Novels - Current Crop

 Nuvo Newsweekly reviewed two Indiana books in For your winter reading: essential new books rolling out by Indiana authors. One is a new Larry Sweazy novel, . The reviewer has this to say:

But not out of consequence in what unfolds as diverse demographics spool into and out of each other like a floating double helix. Sweazy word-sculpts living, breathing people moving through a moment in time that’s bristling with a backstory; of days of struggle and strain…we need rain and hope…

And HOPE is what Sweazy is searching for.  I pay close attention to how he leads me through a tale where illusion and disillusion are second cousins, where when you venture out into the world beyond what passes by your doorstep, you see more troubles than your own, where the energy it takes to be optimistic is as hard to come by as is truthfulness when your neighbors stoop to amorality wrapped into religiosity.

There is also  a biography, “So Much Bad in the Best of Us: The Salacious and Audacious Life of John W. Talbot,” and ’s “Urban Nomad: A Memoir.”  I am curious about the Talbot biography, knowing very little about South Bend.

sch 8/31/22