Ramona Ausubel's new novel is Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty. One of her six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:Florida by Christine SchuttRead about the other books on the list.
Alice Fivey's father died when she was 5, and she is 10 when her mother loses custody rights and enters a mental institution. Alice, shuttled from home to home, is left to build herself a story. Schutt's prose is blindingly beautiful — complicated, precise — a reminder that language itself is a refuge.
--Marshal Zeringue
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