A unique book, which although dark and depressing, left it's mark on me. It was sort of like 'The Beans of Egypt Maine' focusing on a young brother and sister and their innocent love for a mother with mental illness. They struggled with poverty and isolation. It's the kind of book you think about...
Rose’s phone number, Vera sat on the edge of the lumpy sofa bed and rehearsed what she might say into the Spenserian scholar’s answering machine—something about needing urgently to reach his pupil Bret Folger—and was thrown for a loop when an actual human voice answered the phone, a voice that so...