Blogs in February 2020

Almanac of the Dead 12th February 2020

“To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.” –Maxine Hong Kingston In its extraordinary range of character and culture,...

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Goodbye, Columbus 12th February 2020

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and...

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Where the Sea Used to Be 12th February 2020

The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men – his proteges, her...

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Love Story 12th February 2020

He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in...

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Colony 12th February 2020

Waiting for her granddaughter to take her home from Retreat, the Maine summer colony her family has visited for generations, Maude Chambliss looks back on her life and the experiences of her family members

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