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Mother's Day Distraction
I don't really celebrate the day, don't expect pancakes in bed, dare not go near extra chocolate. My own quiet celebration included holing up in the bathtub last night with a book I couldn't stop reading.
It is the third novel in a mystery series by Michael Gruber. The first volume is called Tropic of Night and it is a thorny pulpy thriller that takes the impossible very seriously.
It occurs to me to recommend it for Mother's Day because these volumes offer some of the most powerful, most optimistic, fiercest and most unabashedly good representations of mothers I've read for a while. I should say that the divine maternal is hardly the focus of these books, which are, as I said, at first glance, crime novels about bad things happening in sunny Miami but they are extremely tasty.
To say anything else would risk spoiling everything.
Happy Mother's Day.
posted by Elise at 8:22 PM
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Laura K. said...
Gee, thanks for giving me something else to stick in my Amazon shopping cart!
5/15/2006 7:14 AM
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