God ParticlesGod Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generations most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Luxs book of imaginative verse. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems about life and death, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest

It’s a white Christmas in England

detailing Ana Forrest's journey to move beyond her past as she helps others to do the same

as well as the rise of competing churches

many of them Jewish

The vintage clothes enthusiast

Petrosino and the all-Italian police squad he assembled raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country’s anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe

Then the other train drew away

" he asked

Riverdale Zoo

To a man marrying her for all the wrong reasons

old woman in a village ('Sword of Shiva')

meets all the definitions of a good read