10 Terrific Reads of 2010
O's top picks take us from the trenches of World War II to forbidden love in Britain to an apocalyptic New York future.
What Is Left the Daughter
By Howard Norman
256 pages; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fans of Howard Norman's The Bird Artist will recognize the venue and the oddball characters in the author's beautiful new novel, What Is Left the Daughter. In isolated Nova Scotia during WWII, an earnest, if dim, 17-year-old named Wyatt Hillyer is orphaned when both his parents commit suicide over their love for the same woman... Read more
256 pages; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fans of Howard Norman's The Bird Artist will recognize the venue and the oddball characters in the author's beautiful new novel, What Is Left the Daughter. In isolated Nova Scotia during WWII, an earnest, if dim, 17-year-old named Wyatt Hillyer is orphaned when both his parents commit suicide over their love for the same woman... Read more
Published 06/18/2010