Gloria (NetGalley) Kerry Young release date: July 16, 2013 Gloria’s story covers nearly thirty years, from the horrifying murder at the novel’s beginning to her discovery of a brother she never knew at its end. And in between is a series of hills and valleys, losses and gains. A runaway at sixteen, Gloria raises her …
Sisterland (NetGalley) Curtis Sittenfeld release date: June 25,2013 Daisy and Violet were identical twins who couldn’t have been more different. Daisy longs to fit in; Violet couldn’t have cared less. Daisy is pretty; Violet overweight. Daisy has the perfect family: loving husband, toddler Rosie and baby Owen; in her 30s Violet is still single and …
Meg Wolitzer reviewed Jeanette Walls’ Silver Star today on NPR (link) and while I don’t disagree with some of her criticism (sometimes the direction was shaky, and maybe the girls are a little too resourceful), I also couldn’t help but think that she totally missed the mark on why some readers return to a favorite author in the …
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell William Klaber release date: June 18, 2013 Lucy Ann was on the run. Her abusive husband had left her, she had no way to support her toddler daughter, and she was living once again with her disapproving family. Her options were few. So Lucy Ann Slater, always more …
Dear Lucy (NetGalley) by Julie Sarkissian And you are there from the beginning of the baby and that is why you are its family. Samantha and Lucy spend their days and nights on the farm of Mister and Missus, little more than hired hands, but without the pay. They weed, stitch, gather eggs, feed the …
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 …
This is my symphony 