Elizabeth Morris: 3 books

Dysfunctional families are not all that unusual but in the case of the Carpenters, ignoring a son, grandson and nephew's "oddness" eventually lead to mayhem the family could not and would never have predicted. Choosing to ignore what appears to be minor degrees of strangeness leads to what can never be fixed.

Bitter Passage opens on a rainy day in New York City during the bleak winter of 1849. Newspapers and broadsides shout the news that gold has been discovered in California. Americans respond predictably. Among the mob heading off in that epic American drama - the Gold Rush - are Frida, Hermann, and...

An array of mid-20th Century women parade through the narrator’s life, who tells their partial early life stories as she remembers them, weaving her own story into the fabric of the whole.Thus “Margaret Anne” remembers “old” friends, most of them from the fifties, sixties and seventies,...