Author Herman Koch has created the doctor we’re all afraid of in his new novel, Summer House with Swimming Pool. Not a horrific needle wielding monster but something worse: the one who pretends to care but really despises his patients. Dr. Marc Schlosser listens to his patients’ complaints and seems to be sympathetic and attentive but is really thinking about the beach and ... Read More...
The Stager: A Novel
As the real estate market appears to be rebounding it has given birth to an entire new industry—staging. And you know an industry has arrived when it makes its debut into fiction. Susan Coll’s new novel The Stager is about a quirky stager, who remains nameless for much of the novel (which is not surprising as these people slip into your home, remove everything that is yours and ... Read More...
Girls Gone Wrong
You spend a long time waiting for life to start—the past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant—and then it does start and you realize it isn’t what you’d expected, or asked for. Megan Abbott excels at portraying the almost overwhelming brew of hormones and perfumes that comes off teenage girls. Where she deviates from more ... Read More...
The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness returns with the final novel in the All Souls Trilogy. The Book of Life begins with Diana and Matthew's return to Sept-Tours, Matthew's ancestral home. Harkness wastes no time in assembling the almost dizzying and incomprehensible cast of Matthew's family- both those related by birth and those created by blood. Thankfully, her skill at weaving the family's ... Read More...
Evergreen: A Novel
A small cabin without running water, indoor plumbing, or electricity, in the wilderness of Minnesota is the setting for Rebecca Rasmussen’s new novel, Evergreen. In it, the young Evaline joins her new husband Emil who hopes to build their life as a taxidermist to the numerous hunters and sportsmen who live in the region’s lumber towns. Although a city girl, Evaline embraces ... Read More...
The Care and Management of Lies
Thea and Kezia have been friends since childhood and have just finished college to begin their teaching careers in The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. That is until Kezia decides to marry Thea’s brother Tom, leaving Thea feeling isolated and betrayed. While Kezia adapts to married life and being a farmer’s wife, Thea throws herself into the suffragette ... Read More...
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