"This is definitely one of those books which will stay with me forever
lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity
"--Emily Fridlund
He also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment
As Erica chronicles her own migration--from crying wolf as a child on her grandfather's sheep farm to accidentally eating mandrake in Sicily--she searches for new expressions for how to be a brave woman
Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick Geology "This is definitely one ofA Good Morning America Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle aged art historian