WHITE OLEANDER by Janet Fitch
WHITE OLEANDER is the kind of novel that agents still talk about, over twenty years after it was published in 1999. As I was curious to see what they were talking about, I recently read it. The agents were right. This is an amazing novel, not just for the outrageous but believable character of Ingrid […]
Maggie Gyllenhal’s movie based upon Elena Ferrante’s THE LOST DAUGHTER drops today on Netflix!
THE LOST DAUGHTER by Elena Ferrante is a meditation on motherhood. When 40-something Leda decides to rent a beach house near Naples for the summer, her unaccustomed solitude leads her to meditate on her life and her daughters. Now that her daughters (both in their twenties) have grown and moved far away to Toronto, Canada, […]
