Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

The Woman Who Talked After Death by Nancy Dafoe K’74.

November 11, 2026

Tags Kirkland College Alumna

(National League of American Pen Women Inc., 2026).

This powerful book, the author’s 17^th, deals with violence against women, which she says is too often treated differently as “domestic violence.” According to the publisher, the novel “is the story of a young woman who is brutally shot and survives in a ‘locked-in’ state, yet speaks words unrelated to her surroundings. It is the unexplained phenomena of her disconnected speech that causes people around her to either exploit her condition or use it to find significance and meaning in their own lives, interpreting the words of the grievously injured woman through the lens of their own belief systems. The novel is also a symbolic narrative about violence against women and how women have persevered.”