Snow Falling on Cedars Interview
By David Guterson
Vintage Books

A special interview with David Guterson.

Archangel
By Paul Watkins
Random House

"Archangel is an adventure novel on a large scale, a masculine book which seems to have been written in a kind of literary testosterone instead of ink."

Downhome
An Anthology of Southern Women Writers
Edited by Susie Mee
Harvest Books

Familiar Heat
By Mary Hood
Alfred A. Knopf

Incidents in the Rue Laugier
By Anita Brookner
Random House

In the Beauty of the Lilies
By John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf

The Rapture of Canaan
By Sheri Reynolds
G. P. Putnam's Sons

Auspicious debuts by five writers

Two notable first novels this season are stories of water, the loss of a mother, and the journey home to the father and rebirth. One is an archetypically male story of travel and adventure; the other very much a woman's story, a story about pregnancy and birth, both physical and spiritual. Both, however, are rich with poetry, and share some uncanny similarities.

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