Book Review of Rick Collignon’s Madewell Brown (for High Country News)

The Stories We Believe:
Book review by Tania Casselle of
Madewell Brown by Rick Collignon

Madewell Brown is the fourth novel in Rick Collignon’s “Guadalupe” series, set in an imaginary village in northern New Mexico. But it reads as a stand-alone, even while spiraling back to explore the fate of a character introduced in Perdido, the second in the series. It’s bold that Collignon, as an Anglo, writes intimately not only about Hispanic culture but then adds in an African-American to stir his fictional plot.

Read the full book review at High Country News.