15 Years of Summer Reading
What have our big
picks been for the best season in books? On our anniversary year, we look back
at great reads from the past decade and a half.
8 of 15
Divisadero
By Michael Ondaatje
288 pages;
Knopf
2007
You need him the way you need ice water: a tight-lipped loner in a black T-shirt who wakes up your senses, then slips from your grasp. Divisadero is Michael Ondaatje's (The English Patient) latest literary seduction, a tale of two sisters who love—and, inevitably, lose—the sexy male enigma known as Coop. An intricate double narrative, mapping landscapes of memory and desire.
— Cathleen Medwick
Published 04/01/2008