17 Must-Read Books for the New Year
An unlikely debut, a posthumous masterpiece, and more titles to pick up now.
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Last Girl Before Freeway
By Leslie Bennetts
432 pages;
Little, Brown and Company
As this affectionate and entertaining bio reveals, during Joan Rivers’s post-50 years, she met the love of her life, joined the ranks of Manhattan’s most elite ladies who lunch, and rose from the ashes to reinvent herself after spectacular failure.
— Natalie Beach
Published 12/13/2016