Summer Reading List - Summer Books
Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry...;O serves up a smorgasbord of the summer's best reads.
By Cathleen Medwick
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine 
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352 pages; Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Margaret Leroy's eerily lovely novel Yes, My Darling Daughter (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is one of those rare books you'll sit with till your bones ache. The mystery of why 4-year-old Sylvie longs to return to a house she has never seen, a family she cannot have known, takes this peculiar child, her anxious single mother, and a romantically scruffy psychologist onto the windswept beaches of a tiny coastal Irish village—a setting as enchantingly perilous as childhood itself. Q&A: Read a conversation with Margaret LeRoy First chapter: Read an excerpt from Yes, My Darling Daughter |
