Two recent books that I myself am surprised to find on my shelves are Emily St. What books might we be surprised to find on your shelves? It distresses me that The New Yorker publishes just 47 issues a year, which makes the eking-out process a mathematical challenge. So I keep only a New Yorker on my night stand, which I do my best to eke out over the space of an entire week. I have no books at all on my night stand, because if I read a book in bed I’ll get caught up in it and read till I’m too sleepy and forget half of it by morning and have to go back to the beginning. What books are currently on your night stand?
“Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, strewn with the banana peels of love.The author, most recently, of “A Spool of Blue Thread” says reading her own books “always feels like lying awake in a bedroom I’ve painted myself the mistakes are so noticeable and so upsetting.” “ has arrived at a new level of power.” -John Updike, The New Yorker Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. Hardened by life’s disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories-some painful-which hold them together despite their differences. From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a “funny, heart-hammering, wise” ( The New York Times) portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).Ībandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own.
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