Friday, July 31, 2020

Eight books to take you back to the 1980s

Amanda Brainerd is a New York City real estate broker, wife and mother of three. She graduated from Harvard College and earned a Master of Architecture from Columbia University after being expelled from Choate Rosemary Hall boarding school in the 10th grade. Age of Consent is her first novel.

At Electric Lit she tagged eight books to take you back to the Eighties, including:
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

This is a tale of the bond between two teenage girls from the projects, and the story of how friendship can tether us to home and comfort even if we travel far away.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Swing Time is among Robert Haller's six top novels that reference pop music.

--Marshal Zeringue