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Evening Novel Readers Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance
of a major new talent on the literary scene. This wise and luminous story
about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that
sparks an extraordinary act of courage. |
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Ravenous Readers The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child. This book explores the power of family mythologies—the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings. |
