What To Read This Winter
Winter is the perfect time of year to snuggle by the fire with a hot chocolate, a warm blanket and a really good book. Here are some recommendations of books I’ve read recently – Happy Reading!
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Small Miracles
This is an intense thriller by Dennis Lehane that takes place in Boston in 1974, when the city’s busing crisis was just getting started. The story centers around a single mother in the neighborhood of South Boston, whose daughter goes missing on the same night a Black man is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s book delves into the Tichborne case’s controversy, where a working-class man asserted his identity as the missing heir to an affluent family’s wealth. Weaving together the narratives of Elizabeth Touchet, a white housekeeper, and Andrew Bogle, a former enslaved individual from Jamaica, this hefty novel uncovers a complex tale of intertwined lives.
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
by Anderson Cooper + Katherine Howe
CNN journalist Anderson Cooper, along with co-author Katherine Howe, chronicles the saga of the prominent Astor. The book traces the family’s illustrious history, commencing with John Jacob Astor’s migration from Germany and his establishment within the cutthroat beaver fur trade, a business fraught with bloodshed and fierce rivalry..
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Such Kindness
Set in present-day Massachusetts, Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III is a tender, painful look at one man’s reckoning of an expansive life that once included marriage, a son, and owning his own business, but is now diminished to government housing, disability, and constant pain.
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