And Victor Lodato's Edgar & Lucy—written in short chapters that read like lyrical bursts—probes 8-year-old Edgar's fragile relationship with his damaged mother, Lucy, in the aftermath of his father's suicide and his domineering grandmother's death. Edgar's abduction by a man who's lost his own son strangely offers the neglected boy a comfort he's rarely felt, while finally igniting Lucy's maternal fire.
— Hamilton Cain
