Ava’s wine-emboldened commentaries at book club and May-December dalliance with a hipster club member add just-right notes of awkward hilarity to the saga of a middle-age woman who finds herself reluctantly separated. Ann Hood, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Knitting Circle and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, on her new book, The Book that Matters. Book club slackers will recognize Ava’s tricks to get through books she can’t quite face: Rent the movie if no CliffsNotes version exists. In The Book That Matters Most (Norton, 358 pp, *** stars out of four) author Ann Hood ( The Knitting Circle) cleverly stitches Ava’s story with that of her troubled daughter, Maggie, weaving in a childhood mystery for a novel that deserves a spot on your summer reading list.Īva nurses her heartbreak among the warm-hearted members of a quirky book club whose theme for the year is the books that had the most impact on their lives. Let’s start out by saying that it’s a relief to read anything in which the villain’s weapon of choice is a knitting needle. A late-night ping on her husband’s cellphone reveals that nice-guy Jim - the kind of man who is there for just about everybody except his own family - has been having an affair with a yarn bomber. An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.
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