The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
Love, later in life
Not the first time. Often the truer one.
Book 1 Long Island
Colm Tóibín
READ IT Eilis Lacey, twenty years after Brooklyn, back in Ireland with a marriage cracking. Quiet and merciless. Read it.
Book 2 Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
READ IT A mother tells her grown daughters, over a lockdown cherry harvest, about the man she loved before them. Serene and deep. Read it.
Book 3 The Wedding People
Alison Espach
FOR SOME A woman arrives alone at a hotel taken over by someone else's wedding. Funnier and sadder than it sounds. A good week's read.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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