By Julie O’Brien Deasy
Question: We are going away for Spring Break next week, and I want to bring a good book. Do you have anything new to recommend?
Answer: Vacation is a relaxing time to check out a new book, and Spring Break is an especially appropriate week to escape into a good story. Whether you are lounging on a beach, traveling to new destinations, or just relaxing at home, books make great companions for all sorts of vacations!
The well-read staff at Elm Street Books shared some of their favorite new releases to help inspire your Spring reading. Their recommendations are below, and range from thrillers, to romance, to retellings of a classic tale, to family dramas, and more!
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra is a pulse-pounding edge of your seat tension from start to finish! Middle of the night blizzard storm, home alone with her two young children, a woman finds an intruder creeping through the dark shadows of her house and quickly wakes the kids to find a hiding spot.
She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica follows Meghan, an ICU nurse who’s trying to find her way. When she’s treating a patient in a coma, she gets a little too personally involved. Before she knows it, she’s caught up in the family’s lives and she starts to feel like she and her daughter are in danger.
Leaving by Roxana Robinson is a tragic opera, set in contemporary New England with High School sweethearts reunited by chance in middle age. Robinson captures the pain, emotion and day-to-day conversations and inferred thoughts of her two characters precisely.
The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird is a debut novel about two women, Lois and Greer, who are living at a “Divorce Ranch’ in Nevada in the 1950s. These ranches were places women could stay for 6 weeks to establish Nevada residency and get a “quickie divorce”. Lois and Greer become friends and dare to imagine different lives for themselves during a time when women had few options and many felt suffocated by their lives.
James by Percival Everett is a re-telling of Huckleberry Finn, told from Jim’s point of view. A humorous and vulnerable journey with these literary icons that does not disappoint.
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza is the modern-day saga of a flailing Philadelphia chef who honors the dying wish of a beloved great-aunt by journeying back to her ancestral Italian homeland, and flashbacks to the plucky great-grandmother whose battle against the constraints of early-20th-century Sicilian womanhood may have ended in her murder.
Pick one of these new releases up (or browse other choices) at Elm Street Books at 35 Elm Street, or www.elmstreetbooks.com.
Send in your ideas or queries to Julie@NewCanaanSentinel.com.
