The Bamboo Wife Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just

Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin

TIMELY NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK: As fires rage over a wider swath of the United States and countries across the globe

a mother as a kraken

the ways in which we sometimes hurt those we love most

From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees

The Bamboo Wife Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks justLeona Sevick's The Bamboo Wife captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of "good" wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, "It takes a hard ass woman to raise her young." Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger and