Tattle Tattle for Feb 2012

Award winning authors offer words of inspiration and dramatic stories - Two to read now and one to look forward to:

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai University - Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo offers a dramatic story of families striving for a better life in a city of stark contrasts.  Based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

What we Talk About When we Talk About Anne Frank - Nathan Englander grapples with the great questions of modern life. From a gifted young writer and award winning author chosen as one of  "20 writers for the 21st century."

When I Was a Child I Read Books - The Pulitzer Prize winner author of Gilead and Housekeeping offers a series of essays that reviewers are describing as "tightly developed ...some personal but mostly more general, on the Big Themes: social fragmentation in modern America, human frailty, faith."  Place your hold now for the March debut of this work.