The Goodbye Cousins by Maggie Leffler Di, short for Diotima, was born in Pittsburgh. After her parent’s divorce and her father’s remarriage when she was eleven, her psychic mother kidnapped her and took her to Europe. There, she was constantly on the move. Her mother loved her, but she moved around a lot and never [...]
#93 ~ Surviving Ben’s Suicide
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Surviving Ben’s Suicide: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery by C. Comfort Shields When Comfort Shields was a freshman at Sarah Lawrence she met and fell in love with Ben, a former Navy recruit who joined the college as a second year freshman. Their relationship would impact Shields’ life on many levels. While he initially helped [...]
#80 ~ Matrimony
21 Jun By 10 Comments
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin This novel tells the story of Julian Wainwright, an only son from a well-to-do family. At the beginning, we meet Julian as a young man beginning his college and writing career at Graymont College, a liberal arts college that both gets him away from his parents and, to a certain extent, [...]
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