Summer Reading is still at the top of our list of things to do now….
APRIL AND OLIVER by Tess Callahan is on my list. The story of two people who grew up like brother and sister and what happens when they are drawn back together after a family tragedy. The writing is beautiful and insightful; the characters are complex and surprising; and the plot is not what you think.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE NEW BOOK…
“Postmenopausal Zest is fueling a new revolution in the generation that redefined womanhood. Love on the far side of fifty will never be the same!”
“It’s still rare to read anything this thoughtful about our age group. Especially about care-giving at our age. And care-getting. None of us is too good at that yet. How great to have Suzanne Braun Levine there guiding us as we go along.”
“HOW WE LOVE NOW is an immense Aha! of understanding. Because we’ve been punishing love and sex that aren’t linked to having children, we’ve downplayed the pleasures of love and sex after childbearing years are over. Suzanne Braun Levine breaks this barrier.”
“Discussions of “love” in literature and social science focus almost exclusively on first loves and infatuation. Suzanne Braun Levine looks at what happens to love in the second half of life. It is nothing like the stereotypes!”
”The metaphor I prefer is Suzanne Braun Levine’s ‘Fertile Void’, a space of ‘unremitting unknowingness’ …It is here in the tendrils of the fertile void that something new can begin to sprout — if you surrender to it and don’t numb yourself with busyness.”
