![]() ![]() This writer, a gardener, has a soft spot in his heart for the narrator-landscaper. Mary Beth and Glen, too, have a loving but imperfect relationship that resonates with the reader. The kids are the ones we might have, lovable but flawed, and no one knows of their loveliness and defects more than their parents. She is mother of three teenagers: talented free-spirit Ruby and younger twins, popular athlete Alex and troubled Max. Landscape business owner Mary Beth Latham, who is reasonably happily married to by-the-numbers ophthalmologist Glen, tells the story. Every Last One is a story about a very ordinary family caught up in an unimaginable tragedy and the grieving/healing process that follows. Her most recent novel Every Last One, like her others, gains weight from a social issue theme Black and Blue, for example, dealt with family violence. But her stories are swans in ponds we don’t see the feet paddling. While she has received a Pulitzer as a journalist, perhaps more telling of her talent is the fact that she has appeared in high school literature anthologies.Ī gifted writer, she uses prose that seems deceptively simple, the sort of writing we all think we could do, if only we had the time and a quiet place. ![]() Anna Quindlen has a devoted following of readers, not only because of five best-selling novels, but also books of nonfiction, columns in both the New York Times and Newsweek, and movies based on her fiction. ![]()
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