{"id":5005,"date":"2020-08-18T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2020-08-18T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:10:31","slug":"a-light-on-altered-land-by-becky-bohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"A Light on Altered Land by Becky Bohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?attachment_id=5006\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a-light-on-altered-lands.jpg?fit=297%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"297,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a light on altered lands\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a-light-on-altered-lands.jpg?fit=297%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"  wp-image-5006 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a-light-on-altered-lands.jpg?resize=252%2C403&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a light on altered lands\" width=\"252\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An entrancing tale of love and renewal\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Bohan\u2019s provocative, artfully woven romantic drama, two women in their 60s set on a journey of self-discovery. The chance encounter at a Minneapolis Starbuck sparks a friendship of renewal and awakening for 68-year-old Kathryn, a nurse psychotherapist and a straight divorcee and 65-year0-old Ellie, a retired community college teacher and a life-long lesbian. A cross-country road trip opens them to the new vistas of love, passion, spirit, and hope. Bohan\u2019s writing is both elegant and provocative as she wrings genuine emotions from Ellie and Kathryn\u2019s past tragedies. The womens\u2019 friendship, their underlying chemistry, and their gentle demeanors make them the kind of characters readers wouldn\u2019t mind seeing more of. Bohan weaves themes of feminism, gender fluidity, and transgender ideology through Ellie\u2019s mourning of the loss of the unified lesbian world in which she once flourished. The book has the pull of a romantic drama, and Bohan\u2019s assured prose, deep understanding of the intricate framework of romantic and marital relationships, and topnotch characterization provide this story both authenticity and rationality. The parts where Ellie muses about the ideology of the new age transactivists and their disappointing role in depreciation of the once significant feminist moment of overthrowing the typical patriarchal gender roles become a bit preachy, but Bohan proposes no simple answers, and Ellie\u2019s musings raise significant questions. A meditation on both finding relevance and acceptance in a changing world and intricacies of mature love, Bohan\u2019s provocative tale isn\u2019t to be missed. Lovers of both literary fiction and women\u2019s fiction will be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: This title is free on Kindle Unlimited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Light on Altered Land<\/h2>\n<h3>By Becky Bohan<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Light-Altered-Land-Becky-Bohan\/dp\/1654110876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Pub date January 12, 2020<\/h4>\n<h4>ASIN B083TG71JN<\/h4>\n<h4>Price $14.99 (USD) Paperback, $4.29 Kindle edition<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entrancing tale of love and renewal\u2026 In Bohan\u2019s provocative, artfully woven romantic drama, two women in their 60s set on a journey of self-discovery. The chance encounter at a Minneapolis Starbuck sparks a friendship of renewal and awakening for 68-year-old Kathryn, a nurse psychotherapist and a straight divorcee and 65-year0-old Ellie, a retired community college teacher and a life-long lesbian. A cross-country road trip opens them to the new vistas of love, passion, spirit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: A Light on Altered Land by Becky Bohan #amreading #WritersLife #Author #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #books #beckybohan #alightonalteredland #romance #fiction","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,178,1747,1320398,1136176,610903656,54306025,1473,1008073,856121,309,8154,319033,349],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-fiction-book-reviews","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-romance","tag-womens-fiction","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1iJ","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}