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THE STUFF OF LIFE A Daughter's Memoir. By Karen Karbo. 280 pp. New York: Bloomsbury. $24.95. WHEN Karen Karbo's stepmother died and Karbo flew from her home in Portland, Ore., [...]

AUTO DA FAY By Fay Weldon. Illustrated. 366 pp. New York: Grove Press. $25. FRANKLIN BIRKINSHAW -- the name she was saddled with at birth -- was only ''three months [...]

Janet Burroway is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. Her most recent novel is Cutting Stone. Her text Writing Fiction, published last summer in its [...]

WHAT I LOVED By Siri Hustvedt. 370 pp. New York Henry Holt & Company $25 IT'S no fluke that Siri Hustvedt's three novels all begin with voyeurism. This is an [...]

HELLO TO THE CANNIBALS Richard Bausch. 661 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $27.95. ON the evening of Dec. 21, 1982, her 14th birthday, Lily Austin receives a book about great [...]

CROW LAKE By Mary Lawson 291 pp. New York: The Dial Press. $23. 95 IT's a familiar story, most recently told in Dave Eggers's memoir,' A Heart-breaking Work of Staggering [...]

NO SAINTS OR ANGELS By Ivan Klima. Translated by Gerald Turner. 267 pp. New York: Grove Press. $24. IT is inevitable in the wake of Sept. 11 that we ask [...]