When the powerful medications with potentially harmful side effects failed, in desperation the family entered a “healthcare underground, women and families supporting each other, offering possible leads and kindness when traditional medicine was not enough.” In this compelling medical travelogue, Meadows describes “a community of the defiant” pursuing unfamiliar ways of healing, determined to solve the unsolvable. In her hugely shared New York Times Magazine story "The Boy with the Thorn in His Joints," Meadows chronicled her son’s diagnosis with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, a devastatingly painful condition that can last a lifetime.
The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up by Susannah Meadows (Random House) “Our parents’ lives, even those enfolded in obscurity, offer us our first, strong assurance that human events have consequence,” he writes in the afterword. The two parts become fully whole, connected by the immense power of Ford’s insights and writerly skills.
The other, about his father, who has been dead for nearly 55 years, he wrote more recently. One is about his mother, written after she died in 1981. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ford, author of Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You, among other books, divides this memoir into two parts. His father was a traveling salesman, selling laundry starch for the Faultless Company. Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford (Ecco)įord chose the title of his exquisite memoir, he writes, in part “to suggest that by being born I literally came between my parents, a virtual place where I was sheltered and adored as long as they were alive.” Ford’s parents were married for 15 years before he – their only child – arrived. “He was part of an argument about race, religion, politics, war, and peace,” writes Montville.
At the same time, Sting Like a Bee delivers a rich social history of the period, tracing Ali’s embrace of Islam, and illuminating how during this brief five-year period, both the boxer and the nation transformed so dramatically. A former Sports Illustrated senior writer and a biographer of athletes like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, Montville writes vividly about Muhammad Ali’s boxing career, from his start as an amateur in Louisville to his iconic battles with Joe Frazier. Montville has found one of the most fascinating episodes of the turmoil-filled Vietnam Era: Muhammad Ali’s time as conscientious objector. The United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville (Doubleday) In this shift to an international stage, with its complex web of alliances and deceptions, Turow has created a compelling, all-consuming drama that maintains the themes that thread through his fiction: the contradictions and conflicts of characters with secrets, often from themselves, and how idealism can be shaken when law, politics, and capitalism mix to distort fairness and justice.Ģ. Like Rusty Sabich in Kindle County, Boom chases clues where they lead, and remains devoted to the ideals of the law, if somewhat sour on the practice. Time passed, and while evidence of a mass atrocity seemed thin, the gypsies did disappear. Boom is leading an investigation into a report that a decade earlier, more than 400 Roma (commonly known as gypsies) had been herded into a cave and killed by explosives. It has been 30 years since Turow’s mega-bestseller Presumed Innocent, and in Testimony, his engrossing new page-turner, he leaves Kindle County behind for Bosnia, Washington, D.C., and the Hague. Testimony by Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing) These are five books people are talking about this week - or should be:ġ.
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