Jenny Lyons
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Book review: The Boy In The Field — by Margot Livesey
(Harper) On the surface, this small serious novel, droll in moments, concerns the individual experiences of three young people who, having been witness to and actors in a…
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Book review: The Thursday Murder Club — by Richard Osman
(Pamela Dorman Books) Richard Osman, the hugely popular star of numerous British quiz shows, has delivered an intricately plotted and delightfully devilish mystery in her debut novel, and…
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Book review: A Series Of Fortunate Events — by Sean B. Carroll
(Princeton University Press) It is always edifying to expand your mind in the contemplation of big ideas, and author Sean Carroll is very adept at creating such an…
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Book review: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X — by Les & Tamara Payne
(Liveright Publishing Corporation) Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, conducted hundreds of hours of interviews, and pored over books, newspaper accounts and court documents, to construct this epic…
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Book review: The Cold Millions — by Jess Walter
(Harper) In the harsh, cold landscape of early 20th-century America, futures and fortunes are being made, much as they always are, on the backs of the underpaid and…
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Book review: Shuggie Bain — by Douglas Stuart
(Grove Press) A decade in the childhood of Hugh Bain, called Shuggie, son of Shug Bain, hackney driver, and Agnes Bain, in decaying public housing, framed by year…
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Book review: Erosion: Essays of Undoing — by Terry Tempest Williams
(Picador USA) At the close of a recent virtual conversation about her new collection of essays, Terry Tempest Williams, educator, naturalist, writer and activist, howled towards the sky…
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Book review: The Revisioners — by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
(Counterpoint Press) Now in paperback, “The Revisioners” is award-winning author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s second novel, and a national bestseller. It is a lively, expansive and deeply moving book…
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Book review: House of Correction — by Nicci French
(William Morrow & Company) Okeham, England: a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Tabitha grew up here, and now has returned to her hometown, renovating a…
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Book review: More Miracle Than Bird — by Alice Miller
(Tin House Books) As a young woman whose world is subsumed by the onset of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees, in a bid to salvage a sliver of…
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Book review: Flyaway — by Kathleen Jennings
Flyaway — by Kathleen Jennings (Tor.com) In the district of Inglewell, a fictional locale in the interior of Australia, young Bettina Scott lives with her mother, following a…
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Book review: Nothing To See Here — by Kevin Wilson
(Ecco Press) Lillian and Madison first met at a fancy girls’ school; they had vastly different backgrounds yet they forged an unlikely bond that was severely tested right…
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Book review: Squeeze Me — by Carl Hiaasen
(Knopf Publishing Group) Carl Hiaasen, author of more than 20 novels and long-time columnist based in Florida, is writing at the top of his game in his latest…
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Book review: Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains — by Kerri Arsenault
(St. Martin’s Press) When Kerri Arsenault was growing up in Mexico, Maine, a paper mill town on the banks of the Androscoggin River, she felt lucky and safe;…
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Book review: Owls of the Eastern Ice — by Jonathan C. Slaght
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his new book, subtitled “A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl,” ornithologist, field scientist, conservationist and author Jonathan Slaght will…
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Book review: Migrations — by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books) When we first encounter Franny Stone — strong, gutsy, passionate Franny — she is in Greenland, alone, geo-tagging what very well may be the last Arctic…