Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Alden Graves

Doctorow based this novel about the bond between two brothers on the actual lives of Homer and Langley Collyer. Homer is blind and Langley has been left emotionally scarred by the First World War. Together, they live out their unconventional lives in a decaying townhouse on New York's posh Fifth Avenue and the disapproval from their neighbors increases proportionately with the deterioration of the building. Q... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Karen Frank

This is a stunning character novel detailing the relationship of two English sisters who have not communicated for fifty years, and whose personalities are distinctly different. As the author goes back in time we learn, through the older sister's voice, the complex and dark secrets which bind their story together. As relentless and interesting as it is vaguely chilling, the reader can't help but be fascinated.... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Alden Graves

Vignettes of life in a small coastal town in Maine. The title character, a middle-aged former teacher, provides the central thread that weaves its way through various stories that share a common time and place. Olive is the protagonist in some of the chapters and only briefly mentioned in others. This is a wonderfully unvarnished look at ordinary people, their trials and small triumphs told by an author who o... read more>>>