Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots (NetGalley) Jessica Sofer release date: April 26, 2013 Leaving is the easy part, I wanted to tell her. It’s moving on that one gets mired in. It takes year. Decades, actually. It takes tragedy and drama and the most painful part: the haunting feeling of what’s lost when it finally …
The Aviator’s Wife (NetGalley) Melanie Benjamin I was Mom. I was Wife. I was Tragedy. I was Pilot. They all were me, and I, them. That was a fate we could not escape, we women; we would always be called upon by other in a way men simply never were. But weren’t we always, first …
Speaking From Among the Bones (NetGalley)Alan Bradleyrelease date: February 2013 Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? The story begins in true Flavia fashion with a twelve-year-old girl who can’t keep her eyes off …
15 Days Without a Head (NetGalley)Dave CousinsRelease date: May 2013 Laurence Roach’s mom is single, depressed, alcoholic … and disappears one day without a trace. His six-year-old brother Jay can be hard to manage and sometimes acts like a dog, especially when he doesn’t want to mind. And so it falls to Laurence to hold …
All the Light There Was (NetGalley) Nancy Kricorian Release date: March 2013 Both heaven and hell are here in this world. Maral is fifteen, Armenian, and living in Paris at the time of the German occupation. Life is not easy in the cramped apartment she shares with her mother, father, aging aunt, and brother. Food …
Glass of Blessing (NetGalley)Barbara Pymrelease date: January 22, 2013 (ebook) “Oh Wilmet, life is perfect now! [said Mary Beamish] I’ve got everything that I could possibly want. I keep thinking that it’s like a glass of blessings …”“That comes from a poem by George Herbert, doesn’t it? I said. ‘When God at first made man, …
Fever (NetGalley)Mary Beth Keanerelease date: March 2013 Mary Mallon, the main character in Mary Beth Keane’s soon-to-be-released novel, is known to most of us as Typhoid Mary, thought to be the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in the United States. Mary left a wake of illness and death as she moved from family to …
Mary Coin (NetGalley) Marissa Silver Release date: March 7, 2013 “We never really knew [Grandfather],” Isaac says. “Some people don’t want to be known,” Walker says. “That’s stupid,” Alice says. “Everyone wants to be known. Otherwise it’s just fucking depressing.” Of course, she is right. Everyone wants to be known. Perhaps the ones who conceal themselves most …
A Thousand Pardons (NetGalley) Jonathan Dee Release date: March 2013 Helen had a gift: she could induce even the most powerful to follow her directive–apologize for their misdeeds, real or imagined. Sincerely, with candor. Without thoughts of manipulation. And as part of a crisis management team at a large public relations firm, she excelled. But …
The Forgotten GardenKate Morton I loved Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours (link), but found her Forgotten Garden even more satisfying. Only a quarter way through the novel, I was happy to find a story about a lady writer, an orphan, English aristocrats, and mistaken forgotten identity. Set it all at the English seaside, throw in …
This is my symphony 