Joyfully Retired

We all have authors we turn to again and again. I’ve often said, “I will read anything that author writes.” I think I am not alone in this attitude. I heard about new books from two of my favorite authors. I’m very excited and want to share this information with you. I think you’ll be excited too.

Barbara Kingsolver: Lacuna. Ms. Kingsolver’s last novel was Prodigal Summer in 2001. Finally, in November we will have a chance to read Lacuna. According to Bookmarks Magazine, it’s a mix of “a fictional protagonist, Harrison Shepard, with actual historical figures: renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky. Harrison, who was born in Ameriuca, grows up in 1930s Mexico City. He finds work in Rivera’s house, but an upheaval later sends him north to Asheville, North Carolina. As the publisher’s description says, “political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach — the lacuna — between truth and public presumption.”

Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor: Traveling With Pomegranates. Sue Monk Kidd is best known as the author of The Secret Life of Bees. She’s also written The Mermaid Chair and numerous non-fiction books. This newest book developed out of trips she and her daughter took to Greece and France. ” Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. . . . Traveling w ith Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere. “

Don’t those two books sound good? How about you – Have you found any good books lately?

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