Do you remember: candy made with syrup and snow, roasted pig
tails, Pa’s fiddle, a bulldog named Jack, and a rag doll named Charlotte?
(If the answer is no, by all means move on to the next book in
this newsletter.) But if the list above brings a rush of nostalgia, then
you will relish revisiting The Little House series and diving into The
Wilder Life (Riverhead, $16). Join Wendy McClure as she attempts
to square the beloved world of the books with the “real” story of
Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s a fun, envy-inducing quest that mixes
reading, road-tripping, and at-home experiments like churning
butter. McClure is excellent company—her voice is the just the right
mix of earnest, bookwormish enthusiasm and wry self-deprecation.
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594485688
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Published: Riverhead Books - April 3rd, 2012
I never tire of reading about young women
trying to figure things out in the city. With real
warmth and wit, Jennifer Close (former P&P
bookseller!) chronicles the awkward unmooring—
and, sometimes, the just plain awkwardness—
of twenty-somethings stumbling out of
college and into life. Meet the Girls In White
Dresses (Vintage, $14.95). They move to New
York where they drink too much, stay in hopeless
jobs too long, go on painfully bad dates,
and attend far, far too many weddings. They
also, lucky for you, have fresh, very funny
conversations. You root for them the entire time and by the end, you
feel like they’re your friends.
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307743695
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Published: Vintage - May 1st, 2012
This summer, drop everything and
visit Maine (Vintage, $15.95) with the
wickedly funny J. Courtney Sullivan.
Sullivan’s debut novel, Commencement—
a group portrait of friends who
meet at Smith College in the 1990s—is
essential for every smart girl’s reading
list, and Maine is even more accomplished
and addictive. We meet women
from across the Kelleher clan: Alice,
the boozy, strict Catholic matriarch;
Kathleen, a recovering alcoholic who
owns an organic worm farm in California;
Mary Ann, a perfectionist in-law
with a strange hobby; and Maggie, a
struggling writer in New York. They converge at the family’s summer
cottage, each bearing secrets that Sullivan teases out in chapters of
pitch-perfect alternating points of view.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307742216
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Published: Vintage - May 29th, 2012
