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... In Sy's Gift Patricia Owens takes us to a small town in coastal South Carolina, where residents are battening down the hatches in preparation for a hurricane, where everyone knows everyone else and gossip is as certain as sunrise. Cameron Patterson is shocked by the sudden appearance of her dead husband's illegitimate son. Owens, who is particularly adept at creating a sense of place, gives us an unforgettable cast of characters and an intriguing plot in a setting so real one can smell the salt air and feel the inescapable heat.. Anna Jean Mayhew author of The Dry Grass of August, 2011...

Pulling Time takes the reader inside a minimum security prison for a glimpse of what few see. It's told by a tutor who has volunteered to help an inmate improve his reading skills. It's at times hilarious, bawdy, sad, and utterly forgettable.

Only a handful of novels with contemporary settings dare incorporate a succinct, but coherent, history of Gnosticism in its pages. Or make its alternative Christian narrative the centerpiece of a suspenseful search for a lost gospel. Such audacity is becoming a signature characteristic of Owens' work. Fast-moving, even readers not necessarily intrigued by the legends of Jesus' mortal descendants will find The Seal of Ormus a pleasure to read, as much fun as The Da Vinci Code, and a drama which reinvigorates what I had thought an exhausted intrigue into an exciting and original work of...