"No, drinking oneself to death took too long." Harper Collins, 2013 Ironically, Colleen thinks this almost at the end of Lauren B. Davis' The Empty Room. But once a reader has resolved to begin, the narrative is so tightly constructed that readers are as caught in the momentum
"It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us... discover our soul." (Desmond Tutu) Doubleday Canada - Random House, 2013 If you take Desmond Tutu's statement as truth, Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom is arguably the ultimate discovery. Her to-the-bare-walls description of her alcoholism displays every weakness. It
When we meet Jonny, he can't sleep; he turns on the light to play The Secret Land of Zenon. Simon & Schuster, 2013 In this first sentence of Teddy Wayne's novel, Jonny might be any eleven-year-old boy. But even while listening to the background music for Zenon, Jonny
