Biographical Fiction Archives

Blue Marlin by Lee Smith

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 29, 2021 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review

Summary: On a patched-up family vacation to Key West, a young girl seeks out movie stars and redemption for her fractured family.Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny, an adventurous thirteen-year-old, down to...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 1, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a...

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her...

The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 24, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 27, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 29, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In 1979, Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O’Brien’s unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel...