Edward Schuyler, a 62-year-old widower, becomes an unlikely hot commodity when his stepchildren sneak him into a dating ad. Hilma Wolitzer’s “often hilarious and always compassionate” new novel is a touching tale about finding love after the death of a spouse, said Nancy Kline in The New York Times. “A few hours with this witty, sad, surprisingly romantic novel might be a better investment for troubled couples than a month of marriage counseling.” Stewart O’Nan’s trim new novel introduces us to Art and Marion Fowler, saddled with debt, headed for divorce, and ready to send their marriage off with a bang by wagering their savings on a scheme Art has for winning big at a Niagara Falls casino. Here is a love story for the Great Recession, said Ron Charles in The Washington Post. Only older readers will fully appreciate its wistfulness, but “as a sad, playful” love story, it is “perfectly pitched to woo romantics of any age.”
Written by the author also known as Lemony Snicket, it’s told in the form of a “confessional letter” from a wry high school junior to her jock ex-boyfriend.
This book is “so good at capturing what it feels like to be a jilted 16-year-old girl” that it seems wasted on its intended young-adult audience, said Yael Goldstein Love in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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