When I started making this list, I had more than 40 books scrawled on a piece of paper. Getting it down to 20 books was difficult. Whittling it down to 10 was excruciating. I could actually feel it in my gut each time I crossed one out. Fact is, this list would probably be slightly different … Continue reading The Best Books of 2019
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Review: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes is a wrenching American generational saga about the heavy burdens of family and guilt, and the redemptive power of love. Narrated from multiple perspectives, whisking readers from the early 1970s until today, it probes the depths of human trauma — physical and emotional — and our capacity for forgiveness, … Continue reading Review: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane