Cecil Dreeme is remarkable, compelling, and utterly unclassifiable.

If, in the end, Aphrodite’s Daughters leaves the reader wanting more, that’s perhaps a good thing, and perhaps it will serve to generate new interest in all three writers. For the time being, Honey has made a remarkable case for the restoration and addition of these three remarkable women into their rightful place in the canon.

Tender: A Novel by Belinda McKeon Little, Brown and Co. 416 pages, $27. IRELAND has changed dramatically over the past half-century. Ragged gypsies aren’t huddled with barefoot children…More

THE ACTION in Weekend takes place over a mere two days, and it all happens on a small island in Ontario, where a celebratory getaway reveals fracture lines running through the relationships of the participants.