Monday Evening Book Reviews
THE PLAGUE OF DOVES by Louise Erdrich weaves such a complicated history set in rural North Dakota that drawing a map as you go won’t help. But according to The Washington Post, that’s part of its fabulous mystique.
Pulitzer-winner, Tony Horwitz fleshes out the century between Columbus and Jamestown in A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE: REDISCOVERING THE NEW WORLD.
Leif Enger follows up his 2001 successful debut, PEACE LIKE A RIVER, with a tale of “self discovery and redemption disguised as a cracking good adventure tale” in SO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME.
Can it really have been eight years sine Jennifer Weiner’s, GOOD IN BED? Apparently so. Cannie Shapiro reappears in the warmly received follow-up, CERTAIN GIRLS.
The Denver Post likes OLIVER KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout - thirteen short stories connected by the title character.
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