MY SISTER’S KEEPER BY JODI PICOULT

Allen and Unwin (Australia), 423 pages “When I was little, the great mystery to me wasn’t how babies were made, …

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Harper Perennial. 291 pages I’ve read many second generation Asian/Whathaveyou-American novels that are all pretty much about parents’ plight to …

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Vintage (Random House), 274 pages. “Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the …

The Toyboy Diaries: A Memoir by Wendy Salisbury

Harper Collins Publishers. 293 pages. “I like older men but I couldn’t eat a whole one. A younger man? That’s …