"I didn't speak until I was seven. I didn't feel the need," May tells us on one page of How to Survive a Natural Disaster, a story of family rivalry, betrayal, violence and forgiveness told in six voices. May, the strange, silent orphan brought to a ...
“You knew my mother better than that…”“I don’t know what you’re intimating, girl, but I’d watch what I was saying if I were you.” Born in a 1960s mother and baby home Hannah Casey has never known her father but when her mother finally...
For fans of Anne Tyler and Anna Quindlen, a mesmerizing portrait of friendship that explores seven women’s lives with a generous embrace and wondrous wisdom Lydia is having a party -- it’s a party she hosts every year for six women friends who...