Bloom, Amy

This moving, powerful tribute to love and loss is a must-listen. Suggest to listeners who appreciated Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Ann Patchett’s Truth and Beauty.

As the most lauded work amid an expanding list of Hick-and-Eleanor titles (novels: Kelly McNees's Undiscovered Country, Susan Albert's Loving Eleanor; nonfiction: Susan Quinn's Eleanor and Hick, Rodger Streitmatter's Empty Without You), Bloom's latest should garner high demand in all formats. ["An original, richly textured, and beautifully written love story": LJ 1/18 starred review of the Random hc.]

Imagining intimate scenes between these two women and portraying Franklin D. Roosevelt in all his complexity, with his own dalliances and foibles, Bloom brings the Roosevelts and their world vividly to the page, giving an unforgettable voice to the larger-than-life Lorena. An original, richly textured, and beautifully written love story. [See Prepub Alert, 9/11/17.]

At its core, this is a novel of resilience, with the war serving as both a life-changing event and no more than the background noise of an impoverished existence. Full of intriguing characters and lots of surprises, it's not for those who have taken a stand against offbeat characters, but readers of literary fiction and 20th-century historicals, as well as fans of wacky humor, will find it an excellent choice. [See Prepub Alert, 2/10/14.]