"Unfamiliar Fishes," "Cold Wind," more

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UNFAMILIAR FISHES Sarah Vowell Riverhead ISBN 978-1594487873 238 pages $25.95 Reviewed by Allegra Goodman Growing up in Honolulu, my schoolmates and I painted faux tapa cloth of unbleached muslin and helped thatch a hut with pili grass. We studied different kinds of lava in earth sciences and wrote reports on each of the Hawaiian kings and queens. There were field trips to ... Continue Reading... Post a Comment | Share COLD WIND C. J. Box Putnam ISBN 978-0399157356 388 pages $25.95 Reviewed by Tracy Grant, editor of The Washington Post KidsPost. She can be reached at grantt(at symbol)washpost.com. "Cold Wind" repeatedly poses the question: "What's right?" That its characters can give only imperfect answers -- and that those answers are colored by perceptions and prejudices they ... Continue Reading... Post a Comment | Share THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM Jonathan Coe Knopf ISBN 978-0307594815 311 pages $26.95 Reviewed by Ron Charles, The Washington Post's fiction editor. He can be reached at charlesr(at symbol)washpost.com. In the final moments of "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim," Jonathan Coe walks into his own novel, and the narrator asks him, "Should I have heard of you?" It's a question ... Continue Reading... Post a Comment | Share Advertisement HeelTastic - Soothe, Relieve and Soften heels and feet! Discover Why the Every Other Day Diet's Weird Tips are Changing Lives! COME TO THE EDGE: A Memoir Christina Haag Spiegel & Grau ISBN 978-0385523172 275 pages $25 Reviewed by Ellen McCarthy Let's begin with the headlines already making their way to the gossip columns: Christina Haag reportedly earned a $1.2 million payday for her recollection of a five-year romance with John F. Kennedy Jr. In it, she reveals that he once took a few tokes of pot while on... Continue Reading... Post a Comment | Share

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