Inside this month's issue of BookPage

JUNE 2003
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
June BookPage interviews:

Carolyn Parkhurst: Only the family dog knows the secret behind a woman's mysterious death

Linguistics professor Paul Iverson's life is turned upside-down when the body of his young wife Lexy is found beneath their backyard apple tree. Did she fall or did she jump? Only Lorelei, family dog and sole witness to the tragedy, knows for sure. And she's not talking. Yet.

Isabel Allende: Writing home in a story of two cultures

Like many writers, novelist Isabel Allende thinks of herself as an outsider. "I have always been by temperament a dissident and a rebel," she says during a call to her home in Marin County, California. "This has been my struggle all my life." But it's one thing to be somewhat alienated from family and social class, as Allende was in her youth, and quite another to be sent into exile from your homeland.

Esmé Raji Codell brings out the best in children and their teachers

Meet Kate White

What's behind Nevada Barr's revealing new memoir

Meet Chris Raschka

Sherman Alexie: Investigating the sacred and the profane in a new collection of short fiction

Gary Paulsen pushes teen writing to new limits

FEATURES

COVER STORY: What you don't know about Harry Potter

SPOTLIGHT: Books to celebrate dear ol' dad on Father's Day

Well Read: Exploring the library's colorful past

Taking you off the beaten path with guides to Vacations

Summer Reading: Teen novels for lazy days

Short Story Collections: Highlighting gems of the genre

FICTION

Honey Don't by Tim Sandlin

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The English Disease by Joseph Skibell