Myla Goldberg: never the same story twice!

 

Goldberg’s newest novel, THE FALSE FRIEND, is a literary mystery about a long-ago crime and the point at which memory (unreliable) and truth (uncertain) collide.  She is perhaps best known for the best-selling BEE SEASON, about a family caught up in competitive spelling.

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You might also enjoy WICKETT’S REMEDY, a highly original historical fiction set in Boston at the beginning of the 20th century;  and TIME’S MAGPIE, a non-fiction exploration of Prague.

Every book is different, and they are all captivating.

BILL WARRINGTON’S LAST CHANCE by James King

 

Bill’s memory is becoming unreliable,  he has started talking to his dead wife, and he is more or less estranged from his three adult children.  What to do?  Essentially, he runs away from home.  A story about a believable family, told with care and humor. 

ELEGIES FOR THE BROKEN-HEARTED by Christie Hodgen

Born poor in a depressed industrial area in the 1970s, Mary Murphy and her sister are dragged along – and down – by their mother through her serial marriages.  In this uniquely framed and beautifully written novel, Mary delivers elegies to five people who have touched her life;  in doing so, she tells her own story.

TILL I END MY SONG: A Gathering of Last Poems; edited by Harold Bloom

 

Noted scholar and critic Bloom has selected one hundred poems written over the course of four hundred years.  Not all of the included poems are actually the last written by the poets, but all are poems Bloom admires.  Dip into this book, with brief introductory comments accompanying each poem, to revisit old favorites and perhaps find some new ones.

I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE by Laura Lippman

 

A woman’s contented life is disrupted when she receives a letter from a man on death row.  He is the serial killer who had held her captive for several weeks when she was a teenager.  How has he found her?  And what does he want?  Terrific psychological suspense from a popular author.