If you're looking for a new book to spice up your reading list, John Warner has three suggestions for you to pick up this summer.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune."Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club" by J. Ryan Stradal ;"Small Mercies" by Dennis Lehane ;"Beware the Woman" by Megan Abbott .In some cases, you know exactly what you want, and want a virtual certainty that you’ll get what you’re after.
There’s also a third category, the writers who are like chefs who work in the tradition of a particular cuisine. If you go to a Rick Bayless joint, you’re going to get Mexican flavors, but you’re still likely to be surprised by the specifics. This general familiarity can help create a strong feeling of anticipation, heightening the pleasure when you experience that sense of familiarity mixed with surprise.
It is hard to say that I “enjoy” Megan Abbott’s books, given that I read them with my teeth clenched on a knife’s edge of tension the whole time, but I’ve read everything she’s published, including her just releasedPregnant Jacy, who perhaps does not know her husband as well as she should, heads to the remote Michigan Upper Peninsula home of her father-in-law, Dr. Ash.
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