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Books to Watch for in April - Reviews and Reading Guides
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Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore Photo: Ben Goldstein/Studio D
Something Red

By Jennifer Gilmore
320 pages; Scribner


The Goldsteins may look like your typical Carter-era suburban D.C. couple saddled with familiar bourgeois problems: rebellious children, troublesome in-laws, infidelity, and general middle-aged angst. But don't be deceived—as the Goldsteins are—by appearances. Jennifer Gilmore's Something Red is ambitious and provocative, more Molotov cocktail than standard-issue domestic drama, raising profound questions about loyalty, independence, love of family and of country...Read more

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