The dedication to Padma Viswanathan's second novel: For the lost, and for the living. Random House of Canada, 2014 Therein, the reader haa a clue, for The Ever After of Ashwin Rao is equally preoccupied with losing and living. The novel opens in 2004, on the precipice of the trial which
On a commute during which I know I’ll have trouble concentrating, I pluck one of the mysteries from the stack. Quercus, 2009; 2014 I’ve been discovering Peter May, Jeffrey Deaver, and Robert Galbraith this month. Beginning with The Black House, The Bone Collector, and The Cuckoo’s Calling. Respectively.
One might say that Medicine Walk is a novel about the disconnect between a father and a son. McClelland & Stewart, 2014 “Eldon Starlight. Franklin Starlight. Four blunt syllables conjuring nothing. When he appeared the kid would watch him and whisper his name under his breath, waiting for
Sean Michaels’ prose invites readers to participate in the relationship between sound and shape through the simple but beautiful language of Us Conductors. Random House of Canada, 2014 His images are simple and fresh, and they are momentarily disorienting – as beautiful things can be. “I didn’t laugh
This summer is a record-reading summer; the weather has been brilliantly cooperative and I have read more this summer than, well, possibly ever in a summer before. Perhaps not since girlhood days, when it was all about what time the library would open, whether I would have to wait until the
