Currently Reading
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
“Small Mercies is a jaw-dropping thriller, set in the fury of Boston’s 1974 school-desegregation crisis, and propelled by a hell-bent woman who’s impossible to ignore. Thought-provoking and heart-thumping, it’s a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around.” — Gillian Flynn
This is the first book by Dennis Lehane that I’ve read, I think, except for Gone Baby, Gone, which I read a long time ago with a mystery book club. The subject matter – the violent racism of South Boston at the time of school desegregation in the ’70s – makes Small Mercies hard to read, but the writing and the fully developed characters make it easy to see why Dennis Lehane is considered “a novelist who is simply one of the best around” by Gillian Flynn.
Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
It’s quite possible that I read Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo thirty years ago in 1993, but I that year I had three children under five, so it’s also quite possible that I took it out from the library and never read it!
Reading it now, there are parts that seem familiar, so probably did read it at some point in the ’90s. But I know I haven’t read Everybody’s Fool which came out in 2016, an.d now the third book in the North Bath trilogy is out — Somebody’s Fool – so I decided to start from the beginning again, anyway.
Tremor by Teju Cole
