We Recommend: Generations
Beartooth, Callan Wink, Stegner fellow 2015–17; Spiegel & Grau. Two brothers shoulder a painful inheritance: a tax lien on their grandfather’s cabin and a mountain of medical bills from their father’s fatal illness.
Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love, Rebecca N. Thompson, MD ’03, MS ’06; HarperOne. Women’s stories underscore the importance of personalized reproductive health care, where one size doesn’t fit all.
The Original Daughter, Jemimah Wei, Stegner fellow 2022–24; Doubleday. Newfound half-sisters test their brittle bond as they compete in Singapore’s winner-takes-all academic culture.
Six Days in Bombay, Alka Joshi, ’80; Mira. A nurse under suspicion voyages through Europe on the eve of war to unravel her identity and prove her innocence.
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies, Bruce Handy, ’80; Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. A smart look at a cheeky genre of films that have captured and enraptured us since the 1930s.
Isola, Allegra Goodman, PhD ’97; the Dial Press. All night now: Stay up with this fictionalized account of a real life 16th-century orphan whose mercurial guardian maroons her on an island in the North Atlantic.
Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today, Scott Spillman, MA ’10, PhD ’17; Basic Books. How intellectual debates about enslavement in America, from the Revolution to the 1619 Project, influence public perception of the country.
