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Excerpt from Tammy Ruggles’ Review Just One Look by Joanne Kukanza Easley is a powerful work of literary fiction about grief and what comes after. This moving and multi-layered story centers on Danielle Marek, who is thirteen and in love. It’s Chicago, 1965, and for her, it’s true love, not puppy love. Vietnam crushes her dreams of a life with John, and she spirals down a path of self-destruction with men, but her way leads to a terrible end. She finds herself a young but rich widow raising a baby on her own. Is she able to rise above her loss and find herself again?Read More →

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Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley By R.C. Gibson / February 10, 2020 Janie Jennings grew up in Odessa, Texas, in the 1960’s. She “believed in truth, justice and the American way, just like Superman.” But growing up poor in a home with an alcoholic mother can change a naive young girl. Add in the accidental death of a neighbor, the betrayal of a close friend, a dramatic suicide and some heartbreak, and you have a completely changed person. Now well into adulthood and long removed from her west Texas roots, Jane travels home for the funeral of her mother. Suppressed emotions well up fromRead More →