Amy Feltman graduated from Vassar College in 2010 and earned her M.F.A. in Fiction at Columbia University in 2016, where she was also a Creative Writing Graduate Teaching Fellow. She is the author of Willa & Hesper (2019), which was longlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards’ Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction.
Her new novel is All the Things We Don’t Talk About.
At Lit Hub Feltman shared a reading list of books featuring unconventional families. One title on the list:
Ann Patchett, CommonwealthRead about the other entries on the list.
The Killers asked: “It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?” That line that goes through my head whenever I think about this gorgeous, wide-scope family novel. We hit the ground running when Bert Cousins crashes a christening party and kisses Beverly, the (married) mother of the newly christened Franny. What follows is the end of both marriages and the turbulent, at times disastrous, blending of the Keating and Cousins families. Tracking the relationships among the children as they grow up is both a joy and a stressfest.
Commonwealth is among Ingrid Persaud's ten top novels about unconventional families.
--Marshal Zeringue
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