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Title: Brilliant, Classic -- Read It Today!
Review: Thank you, Oprah! I read this book as a college freshman in 1976 and still remember its startlingly honest, quietly devestating portrait of five women from a small Southern town and how, despite their individual loneliness, they fail to connect. Written when McCullers was only 23, it was the emotional and intellectual touchstone for all her other works. Still a pleasure to read and new generations of women will be mezmerized. My other two favorite recent books: "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, an amazingly funny and fresh memoir about marriage, manhoood, love, career, parenting and juggling. And "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," by Azar Nafisi, an immensely moving portrait of the power of words and books in a closed society (and how we take books for granted).
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