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The Best New Books Passion and peril in the roaring ’20s, a crime writer losing his grip and domestic drama chez Emily Dickinson EDITED BY KIM HUBBARD
Paul Cleave Trust No One
NOVEL Working as a maid for the Dickinsons of Amherst, Mass., young Ada Concannon draws close to the family’s spinster daughter Emily, even as the poet withdraws from the world. But when an act of violence challenges the friendship, Emily must overcome her fears and help Ada. A beautifully imagined account of an unlikely bond.
THRILLER Jerry Grey, a
thriller writer with earlyonset Alzheimer’s, confesses a horrific murder to the police. Or is his jumbled mind just reciting the plot of his first bestseller? And why are cops convinced he really has killed someone—a crime he can’t remember? Cleave’s whirligig plot mesmerizes as Jerry fights his decline and tries to put together the pieces.
Liza Klaussmann Villa America
NOVEL In this fictionalized look at 1920s socialites Sara and Gerald Murphy—real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night—party central is the Côte d’Azur, and the players include novelists, painters and a stoic WWI pilot. Fitzgerald fans may go mad trying to separate truth from fantasy, but Klaussmann’s portrait of a marriage that endured many temptations (including Hemingway!) is intriguing and tender to the bone.
FOR BACK-TO-SCHOOL: NEW SEUSS!
Dr. Seuss in 1986.
Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, gave the world 44 beloved, wildly imaginative picture books before he died in 1991. Now his fans are in for a treat: An unfinished tale his widow found among his papers in 2013 has just been published. Edited by his longtime art director Cathy Goldsmith, What Pet Should I Get? features the siblings from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, this time on a mission to bring home the perfect furry, finned or fantastical friend. Seuss had pasted multiple versions of text on many of the pages, “so we had some sorting to do,” says Goldsmith, but she’s proud of the finished product. “At the end of the day, I think he would be pleased.”
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CONTRIBUTORS Books Lisa Greissinger, Tierney McAfee, Mary Pols, Ellen Shapiro Movies Alynda Wheat Music Jeff Nelson
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Nuala O’Connor Miss Emily