I was at Walgreen’s yesterday when I overheard a man at the pharmacy counter asking for face masks. “This is our last box,” the pharmacist said. The man glanced around to see if anyone was looking. I swear he gave me the evil eye right before he snatched the box from the pharmacist’s hands and hid it in his basket. Despite reading that the masks may be pointless, I’d already looked for them. Out of a mild sense of self-respect, I had refrained from actually asking for them. Now, apparently, it was too late. If swine flu swept the...
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Year of Fog on Radio France
The French translation of The Year of Fog, L’annee brouillard, is today’s Book of the Day on Radio France. Click the “Ecoutez la chronique” link on the page to hear the review in full.
Looking Forward to…
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga‘s second novel, Love in Translation, the follow-up to her well received debut, Midori by Moonlight. Love in Translation will be published this fall by St. Martin’s Press.
New Book by Faulkner’s Niece
As reported in Publishers Lunch, a new book by Dean Faulkner Wells, author of THE GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI: THE PILOT’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi, in which William Faulkner’s niece tells the story of growing up as the famous author’s surrogate daughter, providing insights into both William and the Faulkner family which have never been published I couldn’t find a book by Wells titled The Ghosts of Mississippi on Amazon, but did find one copy of The Ghosts of Rowan Oak, going for 109.41.
The Year of Fog in The Reporter
Ann Schmidt-Fogarty has written a nice piece in The Reporter about The Year of Fog, which is next month’s selection for The Reporter Book Club, Vacaville’s city-wide reading program. In the article, Schmidt-Fogarty quotes Sgt. Jeff King of the Vacaville Police Depoartment on the subject of missing children: “Obviously, here at the department we’ve been talking about the case of Sandra Cantu in Tracy, and we realize how much manpower is involved in solving such a crime. It’s exhausting, I’m sure, on the whole community. Most will get on with their lives in the long run. But for the...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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