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Trouble at the Wedding: Q&A With Kat Stoddard, Author of Wasp’s Nest
Who doesn’t love a novel about a wedding that implodes before the flower arrangements start to wilt? Kat Stoddard’s Wasp’s Nest is a compulsive, witty debut set in the rarified sea air of Waspy Cape Cod. Tess, the bride-to-be is all set to start her second marriage to Warren, an almost state senator who wears a suit even in 90-degree weather.
Q&A With Jung Yun, Author of 'All The World Can Hold'
Some people organize the books on their shelves by size or cover color. Others alphabetically or by genre. My system is based on how much I liked reading a book, each shelf an upgrade or downgrade in affection. My top tier selections sit on the small bookcase tucked next to our living room radiator. And that’s where you’ll find both of Jung Yun’s novels, soon to be joined by her third, All The World Can Hold.
Author Emily Liebert Shares 5 Books on Her Reading List this Fall
As the air becomes crisp and the leaves transform into a kaleidoscope of golden and crimson hues, there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book. So fall into fall with these five engrossing novels; they’re the perfect antidotes to the post-summer blues. PORTRAIT BY KYLE NORTON: BOOK COVERS CONTRIBUTED HEDGE BY JANE DELURY Maud is ready to change her life, which means reigniting her career as a garden historian and rethinking her oppressive marriage.
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Opinion: I miss my dad on Father's Day, but California's rains helped wash my pain away
In March, my family reunited for a weekend in Sacramento, where I grew up, to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday. The city had turned green after a period of torrential rain and storms. In the fields around the airport, buttercups and poppies bloomed. The native grasses, usually torched stiff by the unrelenting sun, were a lush emerald. I knew climate change caused this verdant hallelujah, and yet, I was enraptured.
General 1 - Zibby Books
“With language as lush as the setting, Delury pulls readers into a thicket of lust, responsibility, and betrayal that they won’t want to escape.” ―Oprah Daily, Best Books for Spring “As lush and inviting as the gardens created by its heroine, this novel…will wrap you in captivating, high-stakes drama.” —PEOPLE Magazine, Best Books of Summer 2023 “Some books enter you like a hallucinatory drug and, for a time, overtake you.
Searching a Lost Garden and Rediscovering Joy and Love
In Jane Delury's latest novel, Hedge (Zibby Books, June 2023), a garden historian leaves her unhappy marriage in California for a 19th-century estate in the Hudson Valley, where she rediscovers joy in her work. In this abridged scene, Maud searches for a lost garden with the help of an archeologist-and new love interest-as she waits for her daughters to join her for the summer, bringing along a dark secret.
Book World: 'Hedge' puts a new spin on the midlife crisis novel
Zibby. 288 pp. $26.99, hardcover; $16.99, paperback - - - Some books enter you like a hallucinatory drug and, for a time, overtake you. You may even begin to dream about the novel you're reading - or feel somehow that it's dreaming you. Jane Delury's second novel, "Hedge," proves to be such a work. Like most eerily memorable books, it's about more than itself: Describing its plot can't quite convey its strange, lingering power. But one must start there.
Q&A with Laura Lippman About Her New Short Story Collection
Baltimore’s Laura Lippman is renowned for best-selling crime novels and for her iconic heroine PI Tess Monaghan. A journalist with The Sun for over a decade, she has written for a slew of publications including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and her awards include an Edgar and an Agatha. Lippman is also an accomplished short story writer with several story collections to her name.
On the author's bookshelf: Michael Downs
ELKTON — Ever wonder about the man who made going to the dentist bearable? Join us at 1:30 p.m. this Saturday at the Elkton Central Library to hear Michael Downs read from his newest book, “The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist,” which chronicles the life of the man who is credited with discovering anesthesia and its use for dentistry. Beyond the interesting medical history, Downs has imagined Wells as a very human character, with his own struggles and sacrifices.
On the author's bookshelf: Michael Downs
Ever wonder about the man who made going to the dentist bearable? Join us this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Elkton library to hear Michael Downs read from his newest book, "The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist," which chronicles the life of the man who is credited with discovering anesthesia and its use for dentistry. Beyond the interesting medical history, Downs has imagined Wells as a very human character, with his own struggles and sacrifices.
From Expats to Fortunetelling Accountants, a Pile of Character-Rich Debut Novels
Norbert Zelenka, the soothsayer of Frost’s title, could be a character out of one of those old Ealing Studios comedies in which Alec Guinness played all of the parts: a milquetoast who transforms himself into a player, prodded by a band of dotty but well-meaning elderly ladies. At 73, Norbert is squeaking by on Social Security checks, having rashly given away the millions he had saved as an accountant of 40 years.
The Balcony | Bookreporter.com
From time to time, you might run across a work of fiction whose form elicits as much discussion as its content. Jane Delury’s THE BALCONY might be one of those books. Is it a novel? Or a series of short stories, connected via recurring characters --- and a shared setting? Ultimately this debate is not all that crucial to the book’s enjoyment, though it might provide conversation while your book club pours the first round of wine.
Gregory Pardlo - Air Traffic - Book Review
How are families shaped by race, economics, genetics, love, jealousy and rifts? These are the questions Gregory Pardlo ponders in his highly anticipated memoir, Air Traffic. “In studying my family’s destruction, I am studying my own,” he writes in a raw, telling statement. Pardlo enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in 2015, when his second book of poetry, Digest, won the Pulitzer Prize.
Tyler Wetherall - No Way Home - Book Review
Life was an adventure for young Tyler Kane. By age 9, her family had lived in nine homes. By age 12, she began to understand why. Her name wasn’t Kane after all, she learned, but Wetherall. Her family’s frequent moves to different continents weren’t adventures—they were hiding from authorities. Wetherall and her siblings were the children of a fugitive. Their parents began to reveal the truth as it became inevitable.
Rediscovering a France I Thought I’d Lost
My former husband’s grandfather, René, had the straightest back of anyone I’ve ever known. He was handsome, with intelligent, green-gray eyes and a whiskery, ironic laugh. His vegetable garden, on the edge of the forest of Chateauroux, France, stretched behind the house in perfect rows and tidy beds, an edible city of which he was mayor. A Communist who had been in the Resistance during the war, René had strong opinions about everything.
Jane Delury - The Balcony - Book Review
With the exceedingly rare exception of literary genius, a first novel from even the most gifted short story writer is a risky effort, and not always successful. This is why Jane Delury is deserving of recognition: With immense storytelling gifts and spare but luminous prose, she is one of the few writers whose debut will have readers begging for a second novel.
The Thing You Forget When a Marriage Doesn't Last
Recently, when I dropped off my daughters at their father's house, he mentioned that he was cleaning out his basement for a remodeling project. Maybe there was something I would want? He listed objects from our 20 years of life together: the humidifier we once used, boxes of our daughters' clothes, a dollhouse, an office chair. I was standing on the threshold of the suburban Baltimore split-level that used to be ours.
Nova Jacobs - The Last Equation of Isaac Severy - Book Review
Hazel Severy isn’t a math person. While the rest of her adoptive clan revels in the art of quantum mathematics, Hazel would rather be running her beloved bookstore or reading F. Scott Fitzgerald. But when her grandfather, Isaac, dies under questionable circumstances, Hazel is thrust into a bizarre puzzle. Isaac has entrusted Hazel with his top-secret equation, one that could have a catastrophic impact if it falls into the wrong hands.
Gareth L. Powell - Embers of War - Book Review
The act of combining man and machine into something more has fascinated science-fiction authors for decades. There’s something mysterious and wonderful about the similarities between firing neurons and humming microprocessors. But what if the union of organic and inorganic matter manifested in the form of an entire space ship? What if the Millennium Falcon could speak? If Gareth L. Powell’s ripping sci-fi space opera is any guide, it would be one heck of a ride.
The Balcony
“Jane Delury arrives on the scene of her debut with a sensibility fully formed and a breathtaking array of writerly gifts at her command.” — Jennifer Egan What if our homes could tell the stories of others who lived there before us? Set in a small village near Paris,follows the inhabitants of a single estate-including a manor and a servants’ cottage-over the course of several generations, from the Belle Époqueto the present day, introducing us to a fascinating cast of characters.
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