![]() ![]() I love how involving this novel is - how Wharton unflinchingly puts us inside the perspective of a man whose family entanglements, and the society that has created the family's attitudes and strictures, bind him up, and us with him. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) ![]() Anchored by the perspective of precocious daughter Bee, this is one of the best feel-good family dramedies out there. Her books are available in every format and in multiple. Therese Anne Fowler is the third child and only daughter of a couple who raised their children in Milan, Illinois. Semple unfolds this absurd - I mean this as praise - and sublime tale about the Fox family, and the disappearance of its matriarch, masterfully. Therese Anne Fowler ( pronounced ta-reece) is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author whose novels present intriguing people in difficult situations, many of those situations deriving from the pressures and expectations of their cultures as well as from their families. ![]() Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (2012)Īn epistolary novel that's as smart as it is funny as it is moving. As good as the TV and film adaptations are, one needs to read this story to truly appreciate the intelligence, wit, and complexities that come from Austen's pen. The Bennet family's problem is deceptively simple: Get five daughters married off as well as possible before their father's death confers his estate on a distant cousin, leaving them homeless. ![]() Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) ![]()
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