Ann Hood
After losing her daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange, the protagonist in Ann Hood's latest novel, The Red Thread (Norton, $14.95), opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. As the potential parents experience the long, nerve-wracking wait for a baby, Maya is forced to confront her fears and long-held secrets. Hood is the author of nine books, including the novel The Knitting Circle. Hood is also a contributor to Blue Christmas; Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us (B&B Press, $17.00), an antidote to the forced frivolity, gratuitous gluttony, and crass commercialism of the holiday season. Edited by John Dufresne, this collection of short stories by 17 authors, including Preston Allen, Steve Almond, Lynne Barrett, Colin Channer, James W. Hall, and Les Standiford, offer up the gift of candor, suspense, and substance--showing that Christmas can be both the best of times and the worst of times.
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