WorksA Good Woman
A Good Woman is a powerful story of a woman's life. We have all read compelling family sagas, but none has pushed the boundaries of imagination and rattled the taboos of storytelling quite like this one. A Good Woman breaks new ground, and is also funny, warm, and human. Watch Mary Lou, age 86, buying a shotgun and laugh with her, not at her. Weil's story across many decades is seamless, her voice calm, and her conclusion shocking. A Good Woman is not just a good novel, it's one that delivers a punch readers are not likely to have felt before."—Ceil Cleveland, author of Whatever Happened to Jacey Farrow, The Bluebook Solution, and many others. "Tender, touching and terrifying—A Good Woman is not a novel about 'seniors.' It is about humans."—Stephen Birmingham, social historian and author of many best-selling novels. The River Home
Dorothy Weil takes the reader into the unique world of America’s riverboats. She introduces a gallery of fascinating people, her mismatched parents and the people who run today's giant towboats and steamboats. The story spans American life from the 1930's through the millennium. "We meet American girl as river rat--half tomboy,half hoyden. With a clear, keen eye and a caring heart, Weil deftly describes life on the edge and the struggle simply to grow up"--Celia Morris, author of Celia's Place "The river journeys provide an arresting motif for an unusually rich and extremely moving memoir"--Lee Smith,author of The Last Girls and Oral History River Rats
"Dorothy Weil’s fascination with our great rivers, this time with a fast-paced thriller, continues. Unforgettable characters must deal with the ancient river’s myths, its mysteries, and its cold-blooded killers. Move over James Dickey!" --Stephen Birmingham, novelist and social historian Life, Sex, and Fast Pitch Softball
Mercedes Mayfield, like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, is a smart, funny, teenager facing the challenges of adolescence, family disruption, and the games people play on and off sports fields. As catcher for the Hillfield Hellions, a girls fast-pitch softball team, she is forced out of her affluent world and gets to know some fascinating people--two of them her own parents. |
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