The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate

July 12, 2015 By John E. Riutta in Newly Noted Books Tags: book, calpurnia, Fiction, holt, kelly, News, novel, tate

2015 is shaping up to be the year when I am given the privilege to revisit a number of old literary friends. From Albert Camus’ Meursault in Kamel Daoud’s new The Meursault Investigation to Harper Lee’s Scout Finch in Go Set a Watchman and now, so I recently discovered, Jacqueline Kelly‘s Calpurnia Tate in The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate.

Ms. Kelly’s 2009 novel The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate continues to be both one of my favorite novels as well as the subject of the one of the most widely read book reviews I have yet written. Thus I am understandably full of anticipation to discover what the novel’s budding young naturalist heroine “Callie Vee” has been up to since I last left her and her family in their turn-of-the-twentieth-century rural Texas home.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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