Carol LaHines’s debut novel,
Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, was a finalist for the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel and an American Fiction Award. Her
fiction has appeared in literary journals including
Fence,
Hayden’s Ferry Review,
Denver Quarterly,
Cimarron Review,
The Literary Review,
The Laurel Review,
North Dakota Quarterly,
South Dakota Review,
The South Carolina Review,
The Chattahoochee Review,
Sycamore Review,
Permafrost,
redivider,
Literary Orphans, and
Literal Latte.
LaHines’s new novel is
The Vixen Amber Halloway.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five jailhouse confessional novels, including:
Schroder, by Amity Gaige
Schroder, by Amity Gaige, is narrated by an unsavory, unreliable narrator who has kidnapped his daughter and who we understand
to have a checkered past—details that are woven into the present narration of the father and daughter road trip. Though he, like Humbert Humbert [in Lolita], is in many ways monstrous, we sympathize with his plight as a father. Gaige shows us, through flashes, how diabolical he really is. The destabilizing dynamic between the character as he portrays himself and the character as he actually is—inherent in the jailhouse confessional/dual storyline structure—keeps the reader in a state of suspense: believing, disbelieving, reconsidering, reevaluating, reinventing.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
fiction has appeared in literary journals including Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, The Literary Review, The Laurel Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Dakota Review, The South Carolina Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Sycamore Review, Permafrost, redivider, Literary Orphans, and Literal Latte.
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