![]() ![]() Her tales, set in northern New Mexico, evoke the region’s fiery spectrum of color and passion, religious and otherwise, and explore the mystery and tenacity of family ties. ![]() Ten short stories form this debut collection from Quade, a former Stegner fellow in fiction (2009 to 2011). Night at the Fiestas, Kirstin Valdez Quade, ’02 W.W. Ian Morris, professor of classics, in Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve Princeton University Press, $29.95. Shane Book, Stegner fellow 2004-06, in Congotronic Kuhl House Poets Series, University of Iowa Press, $18.50. ![]() Sailing your barcode, you shop with the pain The pier is out, the quay closed at noon. The author anchors her narrative to the 2005 arson attack on a Vallejo warehouse that destroyed $250 million worth of wine-including 175 bottles from her great-great-grandfather’s 1875 harvest-while chronicling the industry’s victims and victors, from its Southern California origins onward. This eye-popping historical probe of the state’s wine business more than lives up to its title-to which the words fraud and embezzlement could be added. Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, Frances Dinkelspiel, ’81 St. ![]()
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