O Magazine's August Book Reviews
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the August 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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By Kate Racculia 368 pages; Henry Holt When his wife, Amy, accidentally electrocutes herself, Arthur Rook realizes he doesn't know whether she "wanted to rest in the ground or flame out into a million tiny particles." What else, he wonders, didn't he know about her? That question drives Kate Racculia's engaging novel, This Must Be the Place, in which a cryptic message on a never-sent postcard leads Arthur to his late wife's hometown in rural upstate New York...Read more |
