Uncaged by John Sandford and Michele Cook Bk and 10 CDs 11.5 hrs)

G: Caged is a very fun read for adults and students. Near the end, I discover it continues. There are at least three books, but the third is not out yet (Singular Menace series). Suspenseful, funny, exciting, Uncaged takes us on an adventure with a hacker and his animal right's activist troupe that break into a research lab to free the animals. They get a lot more than they bargained for. What exactly is this research and are the test subjects only animals?

Amazon: Shay Remby arrives in Hollywood with $58 and a handmade knife, searching for her brother, Odin. When Shay gets a frantic 3 a.m. phone call from Odin—talking about evidence of unspeakable experiments, and a ruthless corporation, and how he must hide—she’s concerned. When she gets a menacing visit from Singular’s security team, she knows: her brother’s a dead man walking.

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer (320 pgs, MP3)

G: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Brian Grazer is the co-founder of Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard (Opie). He shares his personal story discovering his own curiosity and developing a life long pattern of asking questions of many interesting people. It can be a bit repetitive and perhaps you will think you did not hear the complete stories of the many interviews (curiosity conversations). I believe the point was about the importance of being curious and how it can help develop you as a creative person.

Amazon:

For over thirty years, Academy award-winning producer Brian Grazer has been holding what he terms "curiosity conversations." In these conversations, Mr. Grazer sits down with an individual outside of the movie industry to discover how he or she "sees the world." It is curiosity to which Mr. Grazer credits his success and in A Curious Mind, he explains the value of this overlooked and undervalued characteristic and shares how readers can incorporate curiosity into their own lives.

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown (MP3 8.5 hrs)

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (complete title)
G: Do you know adults who can't seem to take the next step, whatever that may be in their lives? Whether you are in your twenties or sixties, change can be uncomfortable. It's hard to put yourself out there when things have become easy or static as is. I only have this as an MP3 at this time.

Amazon: Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Dr. Brené Brown dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.

Whole - Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell (MP3 11 hrs, 328 pgs)

G: This book had very good information but was a bit dry with all the facts. I would recommend it if you are familiar with his writing style and liked it or are concretely interested in the topic. Keep in mind, sometimes I read a book that I would enjoy more at a different time.

In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.

Descent by Tim Johnson (CD 11.5 hrs only)

G: Descent was an exciting story which kept me going to the end. The author is sharing information from several perspectives. It reminded me why I always tell my kids not to hike alone, but alas, there was a brother and sister together and then everything went askew.

Amazon: The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or seen on TV.

Geraldine's Excuses

To catch up on my long summer list and get the blog up to speed, I am going to shorten my writing and try to give the best from Amazon and other reviewers. Please feel free to ask me about any and I will relay what I can remember. I did a lot of house painting this summer so I burned through audio on my MP3.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (416 pgs, MP3 15 hrs) ***

G: I loved this book. It was a different war story or maybe because it seemed so because it was in a different setting than usual. Some might compare it to Unbroken, which not a bad thing. It was moving, I stayed connected and could not put it down. This book is based on the historical building of the Thai-Burma death railway in 1943. The Japanese commanded POW's to work in unspeakable conditions and to the point of death to meet a deadline. The main character is an Australian surgeon who protects those under his command. This is a "Don't Miss - Read" on my list.

Amazon: In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

“The book Richard Flanagan was born to write.” —The Economist 

“A supple meditation on memory, trauma, and empathy that is also a sublime war novel . . . Pellucid, epic, and sincerely touching.” —Publishers Weekly

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macquire (416 pgs)

 G: Note - Even School Library Journal questioned the YA rating. There is a bit of sexual explicitness and language. Although the Tony Award musical "Wicked" was based on this book, the complete story is much darker, deeper and thought provoking. The story touches on idealism, politics, religion and realtionships.
School Library Journal - YA? Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, has gotten a bum rap. Her mother is embarrassed and repulsed by her bright-green baby with shark's teeth and an aversion to water. At college, the coed experiences disapproval and rejection by her roommate, Glinda, a silly girl interested only in clothes, money, and popularity. Elphaba is a serious and inquisitive student. When she learns that the Wizard of Oz is politically corrupt and causing economic ruin, Elphaba finds a sense of purpose to her life - to stop him and to restore harmony and prosperity to the land.

Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea (MP3 4.5 hrs, 269 pgs)

G: This is a super easy read. The characters are younger (5th grade), and a new teacher to their school soon becomes their favorite. The mix of personalities is typical and the young students grow exponentially when they become involved with the special needs class. (Warning - there is the use of the word "retard" by a troublesome student.) This book was a blip on my radar due to the wonderful book "Wonder". A sweet read.

School Library Journal - Gr 4-6–Seven fifth graders at Snow Hill School in Vermont learn a variety of life lessons, not necessarily from their textbooks, when they start the school year off with their new teacher. Short chapters are actually brief narratives by individual students and sectioned off by each month of the school year, beginning with September. From the students' distinct voices readers come to understand the different personalities and backgrounds that define them. 

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (152 pgs, 3 CDs)

G: "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The author is writing a letter to his young son as he addresses racism through historical events and his own family memories, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris. He describes what it is like to be black in the past and in today's America.

Amazon: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer

“The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future . . . Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son’s life. . . . This moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Deadline by Chris Crutcher (336 pgs)

G: Another entertaining book by Chris Crutcher, one of my favorite young adult authors. I have read many, but not all of his books, and so far they all connect to sports, troubled teens with both male and female leading characters, relationships and emotional angst, positive turn around, and adults who are good and some not so good. Give this a try - it is short, heartbreaking and positive. Can a book be all of that? With Chris Crutcher directing - yes it can. 

Amazon: 

How can a pint-sized, smart-ass eighteen-year-old make his mark on the world from Nowheresville, Idaho—especially when he only has one year left to do it? When Ben Wolf learns his senior year of high school will be his last year, period, he is determined to go out in a blaze of glory.

That means not letting anyone know about his diagnosis. It means trying out for the football team. It means giving his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine. It means going for the amazingly perfect, fascinating Dallas Suzuki.

But living with a secret isn't easy . . . What will Ben do when he realizes he isn't the only person who's keeping one?

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer (384 pgs, 10 cds)

Geraldine: First  - perhaps this is a book every high school student should read. Second - perhaps the parents, teachers, and administration will think it is inappropriate (depends on age) and extremely graphic (which it is). If my daughters were just now going off to college I would make it required reading for our family and open discussion at the dinner table. In high school, parents know their own children best. I would definitely have had my rising 9th grader read this and be aware and wary of senior challenges, canyon parties and substances dropped in unattended drinks, alcoholic or not. The graphic descriptions of non-consensual sex are truly assaults. I have not decided if I can have it in the library system for access by all ages. I welcome opinions. 

An Amazon Best Book of April 2015: Toward the end of this powerful, absorbing book, best-selling author Jon Krakauer quotes a jury member as she sums up popular assumptions about sexual assault: “(1) A stranger jumps out from the bushes; (2) There is no (assault) unless the woman puts up a fight, to the death if necessary.” The truth is much different—assaults by acquaintances are by far the most common form of the crime. In Missoula, Krakauer examines one community’s struggle with such accusations, shining a bright light on a problem that frequently goes underreported and is all-too-easy to sweep under the rug. Not only must victims contend with the after-effects of the crime, they must often face doubting police, antagonistic lawyers, and the whims of popular opinion. Some of the reported assaults in Krakauer’s book involved members of the University of Montana’s beloved Grizzly football team.

In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (480 pgs CD)

New York Times Book Review

Amazon: In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores. 

James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured the world's attention by dispatching Stanley to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone. Now he was keen to re-create that sensation on an even more epic scale. So he funded an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington De Long, who had gained fame for a rescue operation off the coast of Greenland. De Long led a team of 32 men deep into uncharted Arctic waters, carrying the aspirations of a young country burning to become a world power. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." 

The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship. Less than an hour later, the Jeannette sank to the bottom,and the men found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies. Thus began their long march across the endless ice—a frozen hell in the most lonesome corner of the world. Facing everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition battled madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival. 

With twists and turns worthy of a thriller, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most unforgiving territory on Earth.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (604 pgs, CD)

New Yorker article

Amazon: The greatest literary sensation of recent times - and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII's courtiers. Both winners of the Man Booker Prize and already hugely successful stage plays, WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have now been transformed into a BBC television series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, bringing history to life for a whole new audience.

Unstuck: ATool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World by Keith Yamashita (179 pgs)

G: I read this in an afternoon, sitting outside on my deck. It resonated with me, especially since we always seem to be in a transition phase. I could see that many of us are in different places on this journey.

Amazon: Getting stuck is an integral part of business because the most ambitious and rewarding work is often the hardest to undertake. The challenge is knowing how to get unstuck. In this dynamic and pragmatic handbook, Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro share the insights, methods, stories, and best practices of the extraordinary leaders they have worked with at business giants such as IBM, Sony, Disney, HP, and Nike.

In immediately accessible terms, they identify the symptoms of being stuck, introduce readers to the Serious Seven states of "stuck"—from "Overwhelmed" to "Exhausted" to "Alone"—and offer dozens of in-the-moment tools, techniques, and examples to generate immediate ideas, whether you need to back up in order to move forward, motivate a struggling team, change your goals, or inspire yourself with a clearer picture of where you’re headed.

Mosquitoland by David Arnold (352 pgs, CD)

G: Good novel for teens, enjoyable, dysfunctional family that begins to heal.

Amazon: After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland.
 
So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.
 
Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking

What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman (312 Pgs, MP3)

G: This was a beautiful novel about love, loyalty and understanding. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it. Although not historically perfect in the science of medicine and asylum procedure, it is still a compelling story of the treatment or mistreatment of women and those deemed incapacitated in history.

Amazon: Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees of a local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings,  Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.

Clara Cartwright, eighteen years old in 1929, is caught between her overbearing parents and her love for an Italian immigrant. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids, But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash, he can no longer afford her care-- and Clara is committed to the public asylum.

Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara's story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to reexamine her own choices -- with shocking and unexpected results.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 448 pgs, CD

Let me start by telling you I am a fan of Erik Larson. The story is rich with details from the clothing and food of the first class passengers to the engineering specs of the Lusitania as well as other boats and submarines. My daughters said, "it is taking forever to get to the exciting part". I disagree, he is setting the stage and the development of the story adds to the anticipation of what we already know happened, but we are now connected to the characters on all sides.

There was mention of conspiracy, some interesting circumstances or by chance coincidences that spelled disaster and now I have some research to do .

Amazon: It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.

The Green Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko (417 pgs, CD)

Wow - If you like rivers, river running, adventure on untamed wilderness, history, and edge of your seat suspense - this book is for you.

A true story of a speed run in an almost retired dory down the Colorado River starting at the head of the Grand Canyon and ending in Lake Mead. In 1983 massive flooding on the river resulted in emergency procedures to keep the Glen Canyon Dam in tact, unbeknownst to river rafting trips and some crazy fast water as well as danger. The story does not begin in 1983 though, we have an understanding of those who first explored the territory. I can't say too much, I don't want to ruin any of the suspense.

Colorado River Trip - Sign me up. Seriously!

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Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans (326 pgs., CD)

Super fun short fiction read. Spoiler alert - this is a series, but it did not leave you on a total cliff-hangar. I can live without going on, but students are following it through. I highly recommend this for any reluctant reader.

The lead character is Michael Vey and he has some extraordinary powers. He is not in the popular crowd and his best friend, Austin, is a "super smart geek" who has kept his secret for almost three years. The setting is Meridian High School, yes, our Meridian in Idaho. When Michael accidentally discovers another student, a cheerleader, has something special about her, the three of them form a club and the adventure begins to discover why. This leads to a much larger force and sinister element that could change the world.

Don't be fooled by your knowledge of the author. Richard Paul Evans is known as the bestselling author of "The Christmas Box" and other inspirational books. This book is written for teens and completely appropriate for middle school and high school. It has plenty of excitement and enough of a dark side to be entertaining in that way.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Adventure by Alfred Lansing (288pgs., CD)

Endurance - one of the most exciting adventure stories I have read in a while, and I do love adventure stories. It's 1914. The expedition is to cross the Antarctic overland. Dangerous weather is always on the horizon. The ship, Endurance, becomes trapped in the ice and this sets the crew in survival mode which goes on longer that any human today could even imagine. The conditions are extraordinarily dangerous, the work is grueling, survival is never a given. In fact, one would think that they are surviving only to delay the death that is sure to come. The author had access to many of the original diaries and spoke to ten of the survivors.
You can read about the expedition before hand to trigger your memory if you choose, but I might suggest that you just enjoy the book and then look up the believable statistics and facts.

"Ice" movie - coming soon?

Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (320 pgs., CD)

The audio is narrated by Linda Lavin (old sitcom - Alice). She has a great grandmotherly hard core Boston accent. The grandmother tells her life story as a child born in 1900 to immigrant parents who are adjusting to life in America. As a young girl who can't be tamed, she sees and experiences many changes including the progress of the status of women in the early twentieth century.

Amazon: Eighty-five year old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two year old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today?" She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and her wicked sense of humor.

Euphoria by Lily King (261 pgs., MP3)

I loved this story. Is this story is loosely based on the adventures of Margaret Mead? Well, I don't really know her back story, maybe I should check it out? This fiction novel has a love triangle set in the midst of friendly and aggressive native tribes in Papua New Guinea. A story of adventure, love and romance, and exploration. The story takes place between the two World Wars. It reminded me a little bit of "Out of Africa".

The Third Target by Joel C. Rosenberg (CD)

Amazon: When New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins hears rumors that an al-Qaeda splinter cell - ISIS - has captured a cache of chemical weapons inside Syria, Collins knows this is a story he must pursue at all costs. Does the commander of the jihadist faction really have the weapons? If so, who is the intended target? The U.S.? Israel? Or someone else? With tensions already high, the impending visit of the American president to the region could prove to be the spark that sets off an explosion of horrendous proportions. Knowing that terrorists forces are already trying to bring down two Arab governments in the region - Iraq and Syria - can Collins uncover the truth before it's too later? Or will the terrorists succeed in setting their sights on the third target and achieving genocide?

This a very fast read, exciting although a little fantastical, but who knows what really goes on over there? Perhaps there are many close calls we never hear of and civilians who engage in the business beyond what we expect. I might categorize it as a "beach read". It does not require much thought to enjoy the story.

Author's Home Page

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew- Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner (396 pgs., MP3)

From the back cover.
A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, "The Faith Club" weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another.

What I appreciated about this book was the commitment and investment of time it takes to break down barriers and common  beliefs. The reading gave me many things to think about in my acceptance of others and their views not just on religion but anything. You do have to be interested in the study of religion to really enjoy their discussions but it is applicable to life outside of religion. If you read it, please share with me what you think. G

The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio (MP3 CD)

Julian, the despised bully from one of my favorite books "Wonder", tells his story of Auggie Pullman, a disfigured boy, entering Beecher Prep and school for the first time. Julian is asked to help him adjust and, due to a back story, you will find out does the exact opposite. Be sure to read "Wonder" first. This book gives you a different perspective as you walk in the shoes of the bully this time. Another book of compassion and understanding not to be missed.

This book is only available on Kindle or MP3 audio at the present time.

Julian Chapter Trailer

Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival... by Peter Stark (400 pgs., CD)

Astoria has been compared to Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara. This is the harrowing tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, a three year journey, to establish a trading colony on the Northwest coast. The adventure encompasses the trials of nature, starvation, and madness on both land and sea. I especially enjoyed the navigation of treacherous waters and coastal tribes.

Amazon: Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast - one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn - nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia river. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders held blaze the Oregon Trail.

Peter Stark author bio

The Expats by Chris Pavone (352 pgs., CD)

New York Times Best Seller
Edgar Award Winner
Anthony Award Winner

"Sly... Pavone strengthens this book with a string of head-spinning revelations in its last pages...The tireless scheming of all four principals thoroughly exceeds all sane expectations." - The New York Times

This book was a page turner. I picked it up based on the reviews stating it was a "suspenseful spy thriller".

Kate Moore is a working mother in a state department job which appears pretty mundane. Her husband, Dexter, is an IT guy with no aspirations for advancement. They live comfortably but modestly. When her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg she leaves her "double life" and they start life as expats. Very quickly she grows bored of being a stay at home mom and her keen eye and curiosity set off a series of questions in which she is determined to find the answers. Every time you think you have a grasp of what is going on, the author throws in a turn of events.

I loved it, there is a little bit of adult material, but it is not blatant or overwhelming. Ask me personally if you have questions.

Rumor has it the movie rights have been picked up.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (544 pgs, CD) 5 star

Marie-Laure, blind at age six, lives with her father in Paris. He builds her a miniature of her neighborhood to help her navigate the streets. He is the master of locks at the Museum of Natural History and when they must flee due to Nazi occupation they travel with a very valuable jewel to family in the town of Saint-Malo by the sea.

Werner, a German boy grows up interested in fixing radios and this skill lands him at the academy for Hitler Youth. As Werner gets involved tracking the resistance and traveling to the depths of the war, he ends up in Saint-Malo where he crosses paths with Marie-Laure.

Doerr's descriptions are vivid and moving. This book was ten years in the writing. He is based out of Boise, Idaho. Other books by him - About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and several story collections.


Interview with Anthony Doerr 3:44