Joan Barfoot

Exit Lines (2008)

I loved this book, truly deserving of the word “romp” through the lives of four octogenarians. Barfoot’s writing is wise and wry as she ponders life’s big questions with wit. We see characters who are fleshed out, passionate people behind the old-age camouflage of invisibility. I laughed and comm...

Critical Injuries (2002)

Luck (2006)

Barfoot likes to play with how the obvious in people can be so wrong. And she does this very well, again, in Luck, where she adds the ambivalence of luck, especially that of perceived luck, both good and bad. The stage upon which Barfoot's characters explore luck is in the extended quasi-family d...

Some Things about Flying (1997)