Amanda Eyre Ward

Love Story in This Town (2000)

This collection was trying too hard to follow the "academic ending" way of writing. Parachute into the short story with a snappy opening, numb the reader with a bland character doing bland things, and finish with the "academic ending" (an ending that's deliberately loose and unfinished, almost b...

How to Be Lost (2005)

I don’t think anybody needs help in figuring out how to be lost, but at one point or another we may need help figuring out how to be found, or how to find ourselves. Amanda Eyre Ward’s book, How to Be Lost, is the story of a woman in search of her lost sister who eventually finds herself. Carolin...

Sleep Toward Heaven (2004)

Forgive Me (2007)

Novel set in SOUTH AFRICA ("A gripping excursion into South Africa's past)The main character, Nadine, loves the thrill of chasing a good story to further her reporting career. She thrives on the adrenaline hit of the next story and is not afraid of entering the scary worlds of drugs, wars and ...