Keep your eyes on the skies this
October and November because we have some great Booklist star reviewed books coming your way: Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement, Yossi Klein Halevi’s
Like Dreamers, and Ann Patchett’s This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
Tan’s first new novel in almost nine
years, The Valley of Amazement carries
on her well known and loved subject of the profound connections between mothers
and daughters, telling the story of an American courtesan and her half
American, half Chinese daughter as they each search for identity over five
decades and two continents. “Ultimately,
Tan’s prodigious, sumptuously descriptive, historically grounded, sexually
candid, and elaborately plotted novel counters violence, exploitation,
betrayal, and tragic cultural divides with beauty, wit, and transcendent
friendships between women.” — Booklist
In Like
Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi researches a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited
Jerusalem during the Six Day War, following the lives of seven of these men,
their evolving beliefs, and their involvement in disparate political and
religious movements in the years after the war. “This is a beautifully written
and sometimes heartbreaking account of these men, their families, and their
nation.”—Booklist
Patchett puts aside fiction writing in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a
memoir that stretches from her tumultuous childhood, through a disastrous early
marriage, and into a happy second.
Patchett explores the moments that shaped her as a writer, friend, wife,
and daughter while sharing wisdom and advice in this portrait of her life. “Patchett
is a commanding and incisive storyteller, whether her tales are true or
imagined.”—Booklist
All of these titles are currently
available on Edelweiss, so y’all should definitely check them out!
-Amanda