Posts by: Randy Kraft
OC Book Blog: “There There” by Tommy Orange
By Randy Kraft Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
The world had six million trees, when people showed up. Half remain. Half again more will disappear, in a hundred years. ~ The Overstory,...
OC Book Blog: “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday
A unique first novel by another mid-life accomplished writer (like Cherise Wolas’ recently reviewed debut The Resurrection of Joan...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog — Strangers Among Us: Two Novels Explore the Search for Identity
So much has been written in recent years about the search for cultural identity. We are all descendants of “others” whether in distant...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Heart’s Invisible Furies” by John Boyne
John Boyne, the author of the acclaimed Boys in the Striped Pajamas among many others, has penned another sort of coming of sexual age...
