It is 1983, and Joe Arneson, is 23-years-old living and living a “normal” life until he starts having vivid dreams that seem to be in someone else’s head. It gets so bad, his family sends him away to a psychiatric hospital. After several months, Pearl, a woman who introduces herself as Joe’s long-lost grandmother, shows up to rescue him, tells him she’s dying of lung cancer, and offers him the job of cleaning out her … Read More “Dovetail by Karen McQuestion” »
Category: Women’s Fiction
Emily is a young girl who is in a persistent vegetative state with seemingly no explanation as to why. Her mother, Rachel, has remained faithfully — obsessively — by her side ever since, while her father, James, seems to have moved on with his life. He’s even divorced Rachel and remarried Eva, a 36-year-old digital marketing guru who really wants a baby of her own. Told in alternating chapters from Eva’s and Rachel’s points of … Read More “A Hope For Emily by Kate Hewitt” »
When I picked up this book, I thought I was getting something light and fast. It was definitely a fast read — I got sucked in and finished it in a day — but it was not light. Have tissues at the ready, especially in the middle of the book. But it was a really good, unexpected read. Kay Bright’s mother recently passed away , and while Kay cleans out her childhood bedroom, she finds … Read More “The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright by Beth Miller” »
My first book of 2020, and if it this is what books are like this year, it’s going to be a good one. Charlotte and Philip have a (somewhat stereotypical) meet cute on an airplane while sitting in economy, and start a romantic relationship that will alter both of their lives. She moves with him to the Florida Keys, although Philip seems to be on the road more than he’s with her. She’s lonely … Read More “This is Not How it Ends by Rochelle B. Weinstein” »