6 Juicy Novels to Read Poolside
Slather sunscreen and dive into some of the most riveting
stories of the summer.
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Saints for All Occasions
By J. Courtney Sullivan
352 pages;
Knopf
Young, Irish and
idealistic, Nora and Theresa Flynn cross the Atlantic to start their new lives
in Boston. Nora is 21, practical and engaged to be married to a young man from
her village. Theresa is only 17—romantic, outspoken and ready to sway
in the arms of strangers who frequent the late-night dances "that felt
like magic." Fifty years later, the two are not speaking and Nora's oldest
child has died in a drunken driving accident. What happens in between is full
of complexity and richly imagined history about the women's lives, revealing
the power and pain of the past.
— Leigh Newman
Published 06/15/2017