Years after Margaret’s childhood is over and she is a mother herself, she often surfaces from sleep with flares of panic rippling through her. “She always woke into fear,” she confides in the novel.
You see, Margaret’s body has never quite forgotten a violation visited upon her when she was a girl, even as her adult mind is preoccupied with the business of living.
What does the shock wave that altered her girlhood mean for the way Margaret will mother her daughters? Recover from a divorce? Fall in love again?
And what happens when she realizes that her mother must be protected from full knowledge of what’s occurred?
Honor Jones’ terrific new novel “Sleep” is one of the most-anticipated books of the summer.
Callie Collins’ new novel is a blues song in literary form, set in a saloon in 1970s Austin, Texas. What happens when the need to belong collides with a world that just keeps moving on?
Indigenous guitarist Jesse Ed Davis played alongside iconic musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. His life, career and ancestors are remembered in a recent book by author Douglas Miller.
With summer — and some welcome downtime — on the horizon, we have just the thing to help you spend those hours by the pool, at the beach, or on a plane: New books!
Holly Gibney is back in King’s thriller, “Never Flinch.” “The Stalker” follows a manipulative man. Happily ever after is evasive in “Consider Yourself Kissed.” Plus, new work from Tash Aw and Etgar Keret.
