Linda Rogers' second adult novel, Friday Water (Cormorant $22.95), is another act of empathy. Ariel Grandmaison has her hands full: Her filmmaker husband is locked in a Cuban jail, a man is shot outside her house the night before her chemotherapy for breast cancer, and her daughter Rumer is menstruating for the first time. 1-896951-48-1

[BCBW Winter 2003]