Elin Hilderbrand Takeover of The Sunday Paper Recommends — Week of June 5, 2022
As summer gets underway, it's the perfect time to build your to-be-read pile with books you can throw in your beach bag on your way out the door. To help us out, we followed up with best-selling author and friend to The Sunday Paper, Elin Hilderbrand. She shared four books (exclusively with us), listed below, that she says she couldn't put down. Check them out below!
I Came All This Way Just to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
This engaging memoir is perfect for any aspiring writer or anyone who wants to know what the writer’s life is really like. Jami Attenberg chronicles her ups and downs as a novelist, her successes, her failures, her nights spent on friends’ sofas. It also includes an authentic look at what a high-level writing workshop is like. Enjoyable from start to finish.
The Cave Dwellers by Christina McDowell
Wow…juicy!!! A searing and scandalously fun novel about the upper echelons of society in Washington DC – the senators, the old money, the press – that is told from multiple points of view, including those of the teenagers at an elite DC private school. The novel is peppered with inside stories behind old Washington institutions. You’ll never think of our nation’s capital in the same way again!
St. Ivo by Joanna Hershon
In the sweltering heat of the last weekend of summer, a couple from Brooklyn is mugged at gunpoint. They beat a hasty retreat to the upstate country house of friends they have not seen in a long time. Both couples are harboring painful secrets – and much drama unfolds in this brilliantly written novel. Perfect for poolside.
Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
One of the great love triangle novels of all time. Polly Demerest is a wife and mother living on the Upper West Side, she’s always there for everyone – her parents, her husband Henry and her two young children. When Polly falls into a secret love affair with a reclusive painter living in Soho named Lincoln, Polly’s world is thrown into a tailspin. If you haven’t discovered the charms of late novelist Laurie Colwin, start here. She’s an utter delight.
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