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10 Terrific Reads of 2009
Blame
Blame by Michelle Huneven
By Michelle Huneven
304 pages; Sarah Crichton/FSG


Sly yet openhearted, Michelle Huneven's Blame takes on the recovery movement in this novel about Patsy MacLemoore, a slightly wild, 20-something history professor involved in an alcohol-related crime. All too flawed, Patsy eventually finds redemption, only to wind up questioning her hard-won moral certainties later on. Think The Good Mother or House of Sand and Fog: It's that good.

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