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What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict

On May 9, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists.

Dad Is Fat, Stories from the Frontline of Urban Parenting by Jim Gaffigan

On May 7, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald’s, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins (“celebrities for little kids”) to toddlers’ communication skills (“they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news”), to the eating habits of four year olds.

The Mothers: A Novel of Love, Family, and Motherhood by Jennifer Gilmore

On April 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair), Gilmore lays bare the story of one couple’s ardent desire for a child and their emotional journey through adoption.

The Humanity Project, A Novel Accommodating the Mess of Everyday Lives by Jean Thompson

On April 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Thompson proves herself at the height of her powers in The Humanity Project, crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.

Snapper, A Novel of Southern Indiana and its Quirky Denizens by Brian Kimberling

On April 10, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.

Fellow Mortals: A Novel of How Relationships Are Built and Burned by Dennis Mahoney

On April 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

An affecting story about how relationships are built—and burned—by desperate needs and obligations. With sparse and handsome prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver and early Stewart O’Nan, Mahoney’s probing first novel charts the fall of a man who has spent his life working to be decent and shows us a community trying desperately to hold itself together.

Mom & Me & Mom, A Memoir About Life With Her Mother by Maya Angelou

On March 29, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.

The Interestings: A Novel About Bright and Talented Kids of the 1970′s by Meg Wolitzer

On March 28, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.

This Close: Lucid, Elegant and Immersive Stories by Jessica Francis Kane

On March 15, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Short Stories, by Editor

Through thirteen stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Kane questions the tensions between friendship and neighborliness, home and travel, family and ambition. In writing filled with wit and humor and incredible poignancy, she deftly reveals the everyday patterns that, over time, can swerve a life off course.

I Want To Show You More, A Collection of Short Stories by Jamie Quatro