There is a distinct intimacy to Kristen Lolatte’s Fiona trilogy, yet the scope is vast, as though drawn from a private weather system and suddenly unleashed. That impression is by design. When Lolatte speaks of these books, she sounds like a woman describing an actual life, not a mere manuscript. “My home is Fiona’s home,” she says. These novels are set in an intimate domestic world of books, herbs, tea, and ritual. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1969, Lolatte has lived enough lives to understand