Wow, quite a hiatus. Well, anyway, two new recommends that are debut novels:
First, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, from Sweden. NOT a crime or mystery although Swedish crime/mys are very very good. This is a book about a curmudgeon who is pulled back into humanity by interaction with a new neighbor and her children and various others. A feelgood novel but still quality.
Second, My Sunshine Away, by M. O. Walsh which IS a book about a horrible crime inserted into a modern, suburban-America setting. The narrator is a boy through the book, beginning in grade school (the timeline is established with his class watching the Challenger disaster on TV). "We were all middle-to-upper-class white kids, all the products of our parents' success, and when we played with one another at school we played in the mirror." (quoted by Seira Wilson in the Amazon review). A literary book that is also a page-turner.
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
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