MOMENTS THAT SHAPE A LIFE: NEW FICTION

Larry Baker’s Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody is the intimate “memoir” of Emily Sterling, who is dying of breast cancer and determined to keep talking. Remembering her eccentric childhood, a turbulent decade-long love affair, and her late bloom as a novelist, Emily reflects on the women who shaped her life – her mother, friends, rivals, and heirs. In Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler‘s Twice Around a Marriage, Amanda and Howard, an early-septuagenarian couple married for 22 years, then divorced for 10, and now in the 10th year of a second-try union, confront the stories that bind them – and those that threaten to undo them – while locked down in Paris as the city shutters during COVID.

Buy Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody – Baker

Buy Twice Around a Marriage – Butler