As I was finishing up Clock Dance: A Novel
This book starts by narrating the most defining moments in Willa’s life: As a young girl, her mother disappears; in college, she ponders a marriage proposal; and later she is a young widow. Fast forward some years, and she feels a bit lost while living in Phoenix with her new husband.
“Willa loved saguaros. She loved their dignity, their endurance. They were the only things in Arizona she felt a deep attachment to. The first time she saw one – a whole assemblage of them, actually, looming outside the airport last summer when she and Peter came to house hunt – it was like meeting some mythical race.”
I, too, loved the saguaros I saw in Phoenix area. I had never seen anything like them and couldn’t stop looking at them. Where the arm meets the base – this part looks so fragile and strong at the same time.
But as amazing as saguaros are, they don’t make up for personal connections. When she’s called across the country to a stranger’s aid, Willa begins to find a purpose as she becomes part of a slightly eccentric community.
by Stephen Markley, but I wouldn’t recommend it to all. It is heavy, disturbing, and obsessed with phantoms of “high school.” But I stayed up really late last night because I just had to finish it!
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was published earlier this year.
by Rebecca Makkai.
by Ruth Ware is an entertaining and suspenseful family mystery. Ware is of course known for her thriller 
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