Unfamiliar Fishes – Sarah Vowell
Vowell often comes off like a guest who crashed the party and then forgot why she wanted to come in the first place.
You Know When The Men Are Gone – Siobhan Fallon
“With a deft feel for characterization and pacing, Fallon’s tales carve out a subtle lesson on the psychological impacts of war, even — or especially — as experienced from halfway around the world.”