Indira Ganesan's "Sweet as Honey" could be said to be about marriage, but like Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," which supplies this novel's epigraphs, it is also about love and families and, ultimately, about the passage of time and the ways we experience it.
Coming-of-age novels can be simultaneously enticing and boringly ho-hum. They entice because most readers already have come of age and can be charmed by reliving or reviewing the experience.
'Terrible" rarely modifies "privacy" because we usually think of privacy as highly desirable and hard to achieve. But for Max, the central character of Jonathan Coe's novel "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim," privacy is rather harrowing.
As its title implies, "World and Town" links the immediate with the long-term by tying the lives of people in the little New England community of Riverlake to those who live - or lived - in distant, seemingly unconnected, places.
AMERICAN FOOD WRITING: AN ANTHOLOGY WITH CLASSIC RECIPES
