Best for: Those who enjoy a well-written fable. Those who don’t need certainty in their books. In a nutshell: Pew shows up in the town church one morning, and the townspeople don’t know what to do with them. Over the course of the week, Pew is pawned off on a variety of people who feel a strong need to fill the silence. Worth quoting: “You can’t be sure of who someone really is, or really was, before you knew them … or even after, sometimes.” […]

I first heard of this book while reading Slate online. The article was framed as a newly discovered interview with C.M. Lucca from 2005, and so I clicked because I do love reading author interviews  – not to mention, I wondered by such an interview from 2005 would be relevant today. Do I need to say that I was taken by the premise of the article – that the subject herself existed, that she was indeed an accidental biographer of her late wife, known as […]