![]() Zach has gotten into some serious trouble. ![]() A sour, divorced optometrist, Susan still lives in Maine, where they were all raised, with her 19-year-old son, Zach, and an elderly female lodger. That the marriages of these adult siblings are either over or in a rocky state is kept in the background of a narrative primarily concerned with the affinities and enmities played out among these three during a family crisis.Īt the start of the novel, the “boys” happen to be together in Brooklyn, where both live, when Jim receives a desperate call from their sister. In Elizabeth Strout’s fluid and compassionate new novel, “The Burgess Boys,” her first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Olive Kitteridge,” the connections among Jim Burgess and his younger twin brother and sister, Bob and Susan, are central to the story. ![]() Yet why should that be, given the deep imprint siblings can make? Staying intimate with one’s spouse is a challenge, certainly, but the problems posed by a difficult brother or sister can be just as painful. ![]() ![]() Stories of marital relations - strained, destroyed or restored - surely take up a larger section of our fiction shelves than stories of brothers and sisters. ![]()
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ONE FATAL PROPHECY SEVEN BRAVE DEMIGODS A QUEST TO FIND - AND CLOSE - THE DOORS OF DEATH. ![]() The Mark of Athena is the explosive third part in Rick Riordan's number one series - Heroes of Olympus. ![]() ![]() ![]() An old man, the king of Salem, the first of various spiritual guides, tells the boy that he has discovered his destiny: "to realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation." So Santiago sells his sheep, sails to Tangier, is tricked out of his money, regains it through hard work, crosses the desert with a caravan, stops at an oasis long enough to fall in love, escapes from warring tribesmen by performing a miracle, reaches the pyramids, and eventually gets both the gold and the girl. Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who learns through a dream of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. ![]() ![]() The story is about a youth empowered to follow his dream. Following Diary of a Magus (1992-not reviewed) came this book, published in Brazil in 1988: it's an interdenominational, transcendental, inspirational fable-in other words, a bag of wind. Coelho is a Brazilian writer with four books to his credit. ![]() ![]() Other recent volumes include Einstein’s Beach House (Butler University/Pressgang, 2014), Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets (Black Lawrence, 2015), The Magic Laundry (Snake Nation, 2015), Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana (Black Lawrence, 2016), The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street (Augsburg College/Howling Bird, 2016), The Mask of Sanity (Permanent Press, 2017), Millard Salter’s Last Day (Simon & Schuster, 2017), The Liar’s Asylum (Black Lawrence, 2017), The Amazing Mr. His essay collection, Phoning Home (University of South Carolina Press, 2015) won the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the 2012 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014. His first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award and was published by Cargo. ![]() ![]() Appel is the author of three literary novels, nine short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller and a volume of poetry. ![]() |