Lolly Winston is the best-selling author of Good Grief, a comic novel about a young widow.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage, $14). I love this book because it’s so dark and funny at the same time, and because the language is so extraordinary. And it has one of my all-time favorite moments: Humbert Humbert drives down the wrong side of the road; he figures he’s already violated every other law of human nature, so why not drive down the wrong side of the road and see how it feels? It’s great how this one moment captures the essence of the story and his angst.
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