Libby Cone's Books
Jun.10.2011
The paperback edition of Flesh and Grass, an historical novel based loosely on the Ill-fated Plockhoy serttlement in Colonial Delaware. The blind son of the founder grows up amidst the intermittent violence unleashed by the struggles of England and the Netherlands over the spice trade and slaving ports. The slippery nature of national identity under imperialism has repercussions on...
Feb.04.2010
Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware Bay in 1663. Their "Little Common-wealth" is just getting started when the...
Jul.23.2009
The Holocaust played out in microcosm on a tiny island in the English Channel allowed to be occupied by the Germans. The little-known Surrealist artists/lovers/Resistance propagandists Claude Cahun (Lucille Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) feature prominently. The behavior of the Islanders runs the spectrum from bravery to cowardice; the local government is shockingly...
About Libby
I am a radiologist who was bored with work, and embarked on a ten-year odyssey to get an MA in Jewish Studies. After I independently published my thesis, a novel called War on the Margins, I aggressively marketed it on US and European blogs, and am happy to...
Connections
Causes Libby Cone Supports
ACLU
Doctors Without Borders
Amnesty International
Audubon
Americans for Peace Now
Libby’s Favorite Books
Oryx and Crake Burger's Daughter The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Kafka on the Shore Cat's Eye The Savage Detectives Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of...