Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
by D.J. Waldie
Holy Land is about a grid—the planned suburb of Lakewood, California, whose small, identical homes were produced with conveyor-belt efficiency in the early '50s and where Waldie has lived in the same... (Tom)
Invitation to the Waltz
by Rosamond Lehmann
Scanning my shelves for something short and fun, I figured this was a safe bet. Set in England between the World Wars, it focuses on that perennial set-piece from the past two centuries—a girl’s “comi... (Liz)
Luna, Phoenix, Queen
by Julie Orringer
Barr and Dava are married professors at a university, with Barr’s writing winning awards and Dava plugging along at academic research. After Dava suffers early-onset dementia and moves into a facility... (Doree)
Public Access Afterworld
by Jane Schoenbrun
“Alone. Underneath the stars. Lost somewhere in the cinematic universe.” On a basement floor in suburbia, Tom Sawyer and Erin Morrison sit eager in front of an old Toshiba to bear witness to televisi... (Shane)
The Black Shield: An American Memoir of Family and Power
by Wilbert L. Cooper
Wilbert Cooper comes from cops: his father and his mother were both Cleveland police officers, black cops in a city that long resisted giving any such power to African Americans. It was, their son rec... (Tom)