Freedom

Freedom

Rating:  Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2010), 562 pages. Much like my favorite story-tellers of the 19th century  (Tolstoy, Flaubert, Austen, the Brontes) Franzen begins his novels with the description of a family, and then simply...
Eye of My Heart

Eye of My Heart

Rating:  Eye of My Heart:  27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother, Barbara Graham, editor.  Harper (2009), 298 pages. This collection of essays is exactly what the title promises—a whole bunch of grandmothers writing about...