Tag: Academy Street

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #29: Academy Street by Mary Costello

  July 28, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  Mary Costello’s book follows a similar path as the last one I read by Cynthia Ozick. They are both books that detail the trajectory of a single life. But Costello’s book is much quieter and much sadder. The events that occur in Tess Lohan, the protagonist’s, life are not driven by herself. Tess allows life…