The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass

The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass

by | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Review, Romance

Summary: In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved...
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

by | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery...
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

by | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review

Summary:   Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has...
A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan

by | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in...
White Oleander by Janet Fitch

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

by | Jul 29, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes–each its own...