For as far back as they could remember, they’d both felt like outsiders. That they’d shared this feeling—that they shared anything –was surprising to both of them. Surprising and tremendously comforting. A Dual Inheritance is a sweeping story of two families and their yin-yang lives through two generations. In somewhat traditional casting we meet Ed, a working-class ... Read More...
& Sons: A Novel
David Gilbert’s & Sons is one of the most complex books I’ve read in a long time. By this I mean the plot did not appear until just shy of page 200 and I found most of the main characters to be unsympathetic throughout. For those who must sympathize with literary characters (The Woman Upstairs drama), stop now. If brilliant prose (Reality, already taking on water, capsized ... Read More...
Rutherford Park
Rutherford Park is the estate of the Cavendish family and like any good British estate, it is rife with intrigue and drama. Elizabeth Cooke captures all the details, upstairs and downstairs, in her new novel Rutherford Park, the story of the Cavendish family, on the cusp of World War I. Despite the many changes in the world around them, the English aristocracy continues to ... Read More...
Life After Life
Ursula Todd is born at home in the winter of 1910, but without medical supervision she dies before she can take her first breath. In succeeding chapters, she returns and each time a twist of fate changes her destiny. Once, the doctor has arrived and there are no problems and another time her mother is able to take action. This is our introduction to the fact that Ursula is a ... Read More...
The Orchardist
It’s already been said but bears repeating: Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist is a stunning debut; the story of a plot of land and the people who shape it while it shapes them. When William Talmadge is nine he and his sister, Elsbeth settle into a remote, rural area of north-central Washington state with their mother. She has no explanation in choosing this location but, even at ... Read More...
Wise Men
In Wise Men, we meet Arthur Wise the man who created class action lawsuits when he sued an airline company after their flight crashed in the 1950s. From being a brash, rude, arrogant and penniless lawyer he went to a multi-millionaire who created a livelihood first out of suing the airlines and then by working for them. Wise Men begins when Arthur, first flush with success, ... Read More...
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