Dining with Squirrels

I’ve loved Geraldine Brooks novels:  they are so readable, muscular and tight and full of detail that doesn’t overwhelm a galloping plot.  Before she started writing novels, she was a reporter, a daring, adventurous, bad-ass foreign correspondent.  Nine Parts of Desire is her reporting from across parts of the Muslim world.  What is done to […]

by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor.  I can’t explain here how important this book was to me.  Mother and daughter alternate chapters telling the stories of their trips to Greece and France as part of the larger stories of their both coming to grips with the identity crises of their age.  […]

Jessie Sholl writes a very honest memoir about her mother’s hoarding disorder and its impact on her childhood, her adulthood, her marriage. If you have a friend or relative with hoarding disorder, this book offers the support of someone who really understands.  Her portrait of her mother is so vivid:  I could hear and see […]