A Powerful Story of a Young Woman and an Unspeakable Crime

Off the Shelf   By Sally Christie    |   Friday, May 27, 2016 The greatest gift of historical fiction is that it provides us with a window into a world diametrically different from our own. Good historical fiction brings us back in time and allows us to imagine, on both an emotional and sensory level, what it would be like to live in a different place and time. Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites does just that, sweeping us off to Iceland in the early nineteenth century. READ MORE