It’s a Mystery: The Keep, by Jennifer Egan

The lady in the tower
As it opens, The Keep zeroes in on Danny, who is forced to get out of town – fast, because he’s screwed up royally once again. These initial chapters appear to be the set up for a romance novel, until they segue into the heart of the story. Serendipitously [...]

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Modern Lit: An a Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, by Brock Clark

Whose story is this, anyway?
The Pulsifer family epitomizes the word dysfunctional. Not abusive, exactly, but profoundly disconnected. Their son, Sam, whom they’ve raised mostly via assigning him books to read, is an ex con, an “accidental” arsonist whose fire at the Emily Dickenson house killed a tour guide and her husband. Sam served [...]

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