Anthony Peardew is The Keeper of Lost Things. Forty years ago, his fiancé, Theresa, gave him a token expressing her love, which Anthony loses on the very same day he loses her to an unfortunate accident. He vows to find this cherished token and, in the meantime, also vows to collect all the lost items […]

Kristin Hannah’s latest novel, The Great Alone (2/2018), is set in 1974 in one of the most beautiful yet dangerous states in the union, Alaska. Ernt Albright, a Vietnam veteran and former POW, returns from war with a severe case of PTSD. He drinks too much, can no longer hold a job, and suffers from […]

The Guestbook is a sweeping novel by Sarah Blake, spanning three generations of the affluent and privileged, east coast Milton family. The story begins just before WWII and ends sometime in the late ’80’s/early 90’s. At first, I struggled to follow the plot, as it hopscotched through characters, continents, and time before dramatically, if not […]