Barbara Berry

“That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly.   She”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter

“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter

“Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter

“escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees