"Secrets of Happiness" by Joan Silber; Counterpoint (288 pages, $27) ——— We don t want to acknowledge it, but our lives are more transactional than we care to admit. We make
Hot Stew, Secrets of Happiness, and the delight of Dickensian character webs: Review Mary Sollosi
Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley
An old building in the middle of London s Soho becomes an obsession in this stunningly clever sophomore novel from Fiona Mozley (
Elmet). A wealthy businesswoman hopes to flip the property, which houses a brothel whose workers resist her efforts; the fight for the fated building also draws in a Dickensian company of drunks, dreamers, lawyers, and vagrants, their paths tangled by history. Mozley s vision of London, simultaneously ancient and deeply modern, is layered with mystery (pieces of which are perhaps too neatly solved) and packed with humanity a deliciously spicy stew indeed.
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You fall in love with a person, but you get a package deal. That s one of the big messages of two new novels that ruminate on love and family, particularly the family that s thrust upon you when you happen to mate with one of their kith or kin.
The heroine of Katherine Heiny s buoyant new novel,
Early Morning Riser, is a young second grade teacher named Jane who lives in Boyne City, Mich. On the very first page of the novel, Jane locks herself out of her house, calls a locksmith, and winds up spending the night and, eventually, her life with him.