I’m calling Strangers and Cousins a “summer read” because it’s largely about a family gathering for a wedding and that feels like a quintessential beach read to me. I’m getting married this fall and am already kind of dreading the unavoidable deluge of distant relatives, so it also felt a little personal, up until the point I started reading it. Cohen may have been better served had she pared things down a bit. There’s a wedding AND the town is in crisis AND the parents may […]
Well, it didn’t scare me off MY wedding
Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen