Amy Frykholm's Christmas list

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I found Gilead such a complete experience that I didn’t feel a need to know more about Lila, a secondary character in the book. But in Marilynne Robinson’s new book, Lila, her occupation of this young woman’s thoughts and experience is so musical and convincing that I’ve read the novel twice and recommend it far and wide. 

BK Loren won the Colorado Book Award this year for Animal, Mineral, Radical: Es­says on Wildlife, Fam­ily, and Food. In these personal essays on environment, friendship, language, and family, the language is rich, deep, and careful, and Loren’s illumination of the ordinary is rewarding.