The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
The American epic
Big country, long memory.
Book 1 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
READ IT 1930s Pennsylvania, Black and Jewish neighbors, and a body that explains a town. Generous and alive. Read it.
Book 2 North Woods
Daniel Mason
READ IT One house in the Massachusetts woods, across centuries and every soul who passed through. Inventive and beautiful. Read it.
Book 3 The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
FOR SOME Three generations in Kerala under a curse of drowning. Magnificent and seven hundred pages. Clear the month, or don't start.
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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