Catherine Newman’s latest, Wreck, is a beautiful meditation on the act of motherhood. Revisiting the family from Sandwich as they enter a new phase of familial life. We all know that successful parents raise kids just to lose them to the world, and that this launch into independence is something we all desperately hope for and deeply dread. Funny, touching and compulsively readable this is a novel about the beauty and pain of family, who have so much to lose when they have so much to love.

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Books mentioned in this week's episode:

Wreck by Catherine Newman

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

We all Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers 

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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