Best books…chosen by Diane Johnson

Novelist and critic Diane Johnson is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of 16 books, including the best-seller Le Divorce.

Novelist and critic Diane Johnson is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of 16 books, including the best-seller Le Divorce. Her new memoir, Flyover Lives, explores her family’s roots in the Midwest, a region she left behind years ago.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (St. Martin’s, $16). The younger daughter of an eccentric, impoverished English family longs for a normal life. Why can’t their father break his writer’s block? What will they do when the money runs out? Smith makes it all delightfully real and engrossing.

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