ForeWord Magazine—A Compelling Novel

Another positive review, this one published in ForeWord Magazine, which reaches 26,000 librarians and book buyers each. Here’s what ForeWord had to say about Tracks: A Novel in Stories in the July/August issue.


“Like a collection of one-act plays, each scene is a tightly scripted vignette highlighting the life of a single character. And while each chapter of the novel is a standalone story, characters have roles to play in several. “The author has a knack for easily and quickly evoking a sense of place, here deftly describing the seasonal life in Baltimore's Inner Harbor: "In the humid days of summer, descending from the hill into the harbor was like sinking into a familiar hot tub."


“The literary device of having the principal characters launched on a journey is well established, calling to mind examples as divergent as Chaucer and Zane Gray. If not done well it can be a cliché. Goodman handles the device deftly and the result is a compelling novel.”


Read the full review of Tracks in the online version of ForeWord Magazine below.

http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/tracks/