Starred Kirkus Review: A Stone for Bread, “compelling” and “expertly done”
In this new novel from Herin (Absolution, 2007), enterprising graduate student Rachel Singer in 1997 decides to talk to disgraced North Carolina poet and former Duke University professor Henry Beam. She’s intent on learning what really happened 34 years earlier, when Beam published a group of poems that he claimed were written by a prisoner…