Tags: 1950s

The Light in the Ruins

The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian In the summer of 1955, Serafina Bettini, the only female detective in the Florence (Italy!)Police Department’s Homicide unit, is assigned the grisly […]

The Exiles Return

The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal If the name Elisabeth de Waal sounds familiar, then you probably read her grandson Edmund de Waal’s book The Hare with Amber Eyes, […]

The Ride of Her Life

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of A Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts In 1954,  twice divorced sixty-three-year-old Annie Wilkins was […]

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe Of all the things I missed during the darkest days of the pandemic, browsing in a bookstore was near the top. The “suggested […]