Charnas has an unusual talent for portraying characters in late middle-age. Katja, the heroine of the first part of The Vampire Tapestry (1980) is memorable and Dorothea, a woman in perhaps her early sixties, is equally so.
Charnas's older characters have invariably lived full lives and, although they may be weather beaten and crotchety, have usually learned from their past mistakes. Her portrait of.....
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