Secrets in the Suburbs
Meet the Goldsteins: wife Sharon, husband Dennis, daughter Vanessa and son Benjamin. In the course of Jennifer Gilmore’s expansive new novel, Something Red, we get to know them intimately, along with Sharon’s parents, Dennis’ parents and Benjamin’s first love, the fiery Rachel Feinglass. Actually, we don’t know them as intimately as we think we do, because there is a great big secret buried in this richly textured story of the irritations, disappointments, disruptions and remembered joys of family life.
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Judith Viorst is the author of 34 books for children and adults, and has lived in Washington, DC, for 50 years.
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