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| "The Memory Book” by Lara Avery Buy this book I've figured out The Thread writer Tracy Mumford's diabolical plan. While barely concealing an eye roll when I've asserted, repeatedly, that young adult literature has nothing to say to me, she gave me a reading list that's like a Minnesota nice slap in the face. As if to say, "You don't know what you're talking about." I didn't. The first two books on the YA reading list she gave me go right to the heart of something I cherish in fiction: the power of female friendship. Last week, I wrote about how I loved "Exit Pursued By a Bear." Next is "The Memory Book," which won a Minnesota Book Award this year. It's about Sammie McCoy, a high school book-devouring debate champion with a disease that will steal her memory way too young. With the loss of her memories looming, she's impatient to get things done. "Let us pause to soak in how utterly and completely tragic all this is," she tells us. "Okay, neat. What are people who are completely screwed supposed to do?" Sammie starts to put everything into her online journal: her first kiss, her ambitions to be a lawyer, and her navigation of a deep and sometimes fractious friendship with Maddie, her debate partner. Over the course of the book, she discovers that she needs her friend's strong shoulders to help carry her secret. I have a feeling that my summer homework of four YA books are going to be some of the best reading I'm going to do this summer. Tracy, you win! -K.M. | |
| This Week on The Thread | |
| Legendary editor Judith Jones dies at 93 When she was 27 and working as an editorial assistant, Judith Jones plucked "Diary of Anne Frank" out of her publisher's discard pile. More | |
| A new memoir unpacks the life and tragic death of a lost friend "The Hot One" by Carolyn Murnick Buy this book Carolyn Murnick and Ashley Ellerin were childhood best friends — but as sometimes happens, they grew older and drifted apart. Then, in 2001, Ellerin was brutally murdered in her Hollywood Hills home. More | |
| Corporate bungling and political scandal abound in Jesse Eisinger's new book "The Chickenshit Club" by Jesse Eisinger Buy this book Why don't crooked corporate CEOs go to jail anymore? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger uncovers culture of cowardice, incompetence, and corruption in both government and finance. More | |
| James Comey has a book deal The first book by former FBI director James Comey is expected next spring, and it will include "yet-unheard anecdotes from his long and distinguished career," according to publisher Flatiron Books. More | |
| A 'Portable' overview of a complex, compelling history "The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers" Buy this book This new collection, thoughtfully edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins, is a rewarding read that reminds us the past isn't a single story. More | |
| Talking Volumes 2017 season guide Buy tickets The 2017 season includes Sherman Alexie, Amy Tan, Jacqueline Woodson, Ron Chernow and Dan Brown. More | |
| Dishing up desi pop "Trust No Aunty" by Maria Qamar Buy this book Aunties, beware — Maria Qamar's got your number. The Pakistani Canadian comedian's new book is a rollicking guide to dealing with the interfering older women in your life. More | |
| Trying to understand "What Made Maddy Run" "What Made Maddy Run" by Kate Fagan Buy this book Journalist Kate Fagan's new book digs into the life of a young woman whose suicide shocked the University of Pennsylvania, where she ran track. Madison Holleran's life seemed perfect, until it wasn't. More | |
| Sen. Jeff Flake: "As conservatives, our first obligation is to be honest" "Conscience of a Conservative" by Jeff Flake Buy this book A new book by the Republican from Arizona details where he thinks the GOP has gone wrong. Jeff Flake wrote the book in secret because he didn't want his advisers to try to talk him out of it. More | |
| When a trip to the zoo turns terrifying "Fierce Kingdom" by Gin Phillips Buy this book Gin Phillips' new novel follows a young mother trying to keep her child safe during a mass shooting at a zoo. More | |
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