The Gin Closet – Leslie Jamison
“Stella, a twenty-something in the City, frustrated with the repeated self-injury of her vapid community, steps out of her own life and tries to enact something realer.”
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
“The Invisible Bridge is insistent in its attention to the survival of humanity in dark times, while admitting that even high romance is all a matter of brutal chance.”
“It is a strange thing to find a book with no sense of humor, and stranger still to realize just how important and comforting even trace elements of a comic sensibility can be.”