Three new books!!
Remember these books–The Space Between Us by Thridy Umriger, Tuesdays with Morey by Mitch Albom and West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge? I have read two of these books for a book club, West with Giraffes just recently. The good news is that these were three very good and popular books. The better news is that each of the three authors has written a new book!! Take a look at them:
The Little Liar, by Mitch Albom, is a Holocaust book but much more. For a change in the usual setting of such a book, the story begins in a Greek city when a Nazi officer tricks a young Jewish boy into believing that a railcar headed to a concentration camp is really a way to escape danger. The boy and two others survive the camp and eventually get to America. It is then that Albon unravels what happened back in Greece and the repurcussions of telling a life altering lie.
Thrity Umriger’s new book Honor is not an easy read. Umriger lays bare all the things we have heard about the ‘other’ side of India– extreme misogyny, poverty, class divisions and sectarian violence. When a Hindu woman falls in love with a Muslim man, the woman’s brothers resort to the unthinkable. Not to be silenced, the woman enlists the assistance of an Indian-American journalist to bring charges against them. The two women, totally different in many ways, withstand indignity and shame to rise to dignity and honor. Reviewers report the book to be powerful and unforgettable.
The last book I will mention will not be available until January, but you can pre-order it now. Mockingbird Summer, by Lynda Rutledge, tells the story of Corky, a teenager living in Texas in 1964. Corky strikes up a friendship with America, the daughter of the family’s Haitian housekeeper. Of course their friendship leads to all manner of problems within the community. Corky happens to be reading To Kill a Mockingbird, as a summer reading book, and gives it to America to read, hence the title of the book. Those of us who were teenagers in the 60’s can probably remember a summer back then when we faced a ‘Mockingbird’ moment.