(Sound courtesy of Politics and Prose)
STEVE EMBER: Mark LaFramboise is a book buyer for Politics and Prose. We asked him what defines a good summer book.
MARK LAFRAMBOISE: “I think, for me, summer reading is all of those things that you wish you had time to read during the busiest part of year, now you are going to take some time off, now you are going to go on vacation and now it is time to read that stack of books that has been sitting next to your desk. So I don’t necessarily think that summer reading has to be something light, has to be something mindless”
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Two of Mark LaFramboise’s suggested books involve animals. “The Tiger’s Wife” is by the twenty-five year old writer Tea Obreht. She lives in the United States, but was born in the former Yugoslavia. Her book takes place in an unnamed Balkan country.
MARK LAFRAMBOISE: “Even though the writing is beautiful, the language is beautiful, it’s really the story that packs the most punch”
"The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht
STEVE EMBER: “The Tiger’s Wife” tells the story of a young doctor named Natalia. She is on a trip to treat a group of children whose parents have died. Natalia has just learned that her beloved grandfather died mysteriously. Much of the book includes stories the grandfather told about his childhood. These include the story of a wild tiger that frightens a small village and the story of a deathless man. Last month, Ms. Obreht became the youngest person ever to win the British Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel.
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