Recommended by staffers Jo, Ellen, Andrea and Sonia.

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"It is the first shower that wets."

"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."

"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't."

Judith was living the dream and had the sort of marriage to Malcolm she had envisioned for herself during her college years at Stanford. Her life was settled and serene, until a little 'swerve' occurred which she might have intended to occur, "maybe I'd actually plotted it out in one of those corners of your brain or heart that you access only in dreams." Yet, she believed in a sort of love that "picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio de Janeiro." She'd had that with Willy Blunt in high school, one of the secrets she carried with her. When she starts to suspect that Malcolm might be cheating on her, Judith allows herself to explore the secrets she'd suppressed for almost three decades.

This book appealed to me on so many levels and I suspect it will stay with me for quite a while. What if....who hasn't wondered how our lives would be different had we made different choices in our youth...we had married another person....chosen a job in a different city. Why does that first lover still hold a special place in the secret spaces in your heart or your occasional dreams? What if....

A haunting, beautifully written story of love, marriage, and roads not taken, tinged with dangerous choices. I loved this book.

Recommended by Ellen

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Good writing, interesting characters, and an engaging plot make for an overall enjoyable read. The author retains an air of mystery over the plot, revealing tantalizing bits of information a little at a time, keeping the reader engaged and thirsting for the next little morsel of knowledge. I eagerly await reading the second book.

Recommended by Heather

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Recommended by staffer Andrea.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite.

Recommended by Connie, Jo, Andrea, Ellen J. and Jane. Read Connie's review:

I’m a big fan of LAST LETTER FROM MY LOVER by Moyes so I was excited to read her newest book. However, when I read the blurb describing the story line I was a bit apprehensive. Lou, a small town girl who needs a job, is hired to be a companion to Will, who led an active, vibrant life until an accident leaves him paralyzed and depressed.

I didn’t know how attached I would become to Lou, who is quirky and determined, and to Will, who is sarcastic and bossy. I was continually surprised and moved by the characters, their growing relationship and the impossible dilemma they face.

I should have known that JoJo Moyes’ new fiction entry would be thoughtful and memorable.



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Recommended by Jane, Andrea, Connie and Ellen

Jane's review: It's multi-layered. Much of it transported me to another time (early 1960s) and places (London, French Riviera, the Congo). It had characters I cared about and a story with suspense -- a real page-turner.

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Recommended by Ellen and Jo

Ellen's review: Set in approximately the same time as my own college graduation, I found myself thinking about all the huge decisions a person makes at a relatively young age. Significant and life-changing decisions which are based on dreams, hopes and what? Literature? I think a younger and more naive me believed that if I loved someone enough, that could get us through anything to happily ever after. Did that belief come from fairy tales, Disney or other stories? Probably.

Yet, if writers wrote stories about what it's really like to be married, who would ever take that plunge? Is this the novel that all twenty-somethings should read before seriously thinking about marriage?

I think I might have read this too fast to appreciate it well enough. I caught myself skimming several times and I don't think Eugenides work deserves to be skimmed. I might have to re-read this to truly appreciate it.

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This book had such a a great sense of place, a community of stilt houses in Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida. It covers the years 1969-2004, in the life of Frances Ellersby as she comes of age and then marries and spans that life.

Recommended by Susie

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Recommended by Connie

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Recommended by Haley

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