Stephen Amidon

Aug 3, 2023 | valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Jenny Jackson |Stephen Amidon |Rebecca Makkai

Here are our latest audio book reviews for your summertime pleasure:“Pineapple Street”By Jenny Jackson, read by Marin Ireland. Penguin Audio, 8½ hours, $22.50. Can a middle-class Rhode Island woman find happiness with the son of a super-rich New York banking family? That’s the question posed by this debut novel by Jackson, executive editor at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house.

May 21, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Stephen Amidon

Comment on this storyComment“A Line in the Sand” by Kevin Powers (Little Brown)Kevin Powers’s third novel, “A Line in the Sand,” is set primarily in the Tidewater region of Virginia, but its heart is located 6,000 miles away, in war-torn Iraq. Nearly every character is a veteran of the conflict that decimated that nation in the years following the United States’ 2003 invasion. They may have physically left the combat zones of Mosul and Fallujah, but that doesn’t mean their war is over.