They say reviews are for readers, not writers, but Barbara Lloyd McMichael—who writes the weekly Bookmonger column for Our Coast magazine—still managed to make my day with her thoughtful take on Small Animals Caught in Traps.
“Despite the reference to small animals in the title, do not mistake this for a tale about minor lives,” she writes. “With precision-tuned character strokes, pitch-perfect dialogue and devastating plot developments, Bernard transforms these scruffy individuals into the flawed heroes of their own lives. This is a novel of consequence.”