Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein

March 22, 2017

The disease of the year must be ovarian cancer. Last month, I reviewed The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth. Hepworth’s novel focused as much on the daughter as the dying mother, because the daughter suffered from Social Anxiety Disorder. There’s a...

The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

April 13, 2016

After hearing Anderson Cooper at PLA, talking about his conversation with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, I picked up the book about that conversation. The Rainbow Comes and Goes is the story of their life, told through a year-long conversation after Vanderbilt...