I don't review books - but sometimes if I read one that touches me profoundly in some way I do hand yell it here on my blog. Hand selling is what independent booksellers do - hand yelling is me shouting about a book a truly loved.
The Lost Wife is one such novel.
It's a beautiful, heart wrenching sensual love story, a unrelenting and brutal evocation of humanity corrupted, and a powerful novel that celebrates art and the power of the human spirit.
My friend John Lescroart was right when he said it was staggering - it is.
I cried many times while reading this book -sometimes from sadness others from joy.
The book was at times all too real for me - I've know people with those numbers on their arms. I have heard them talk about their survivor's guilt and their nightmares.
As an officer in WW2 my father was in the liberation of Birkenau. All my life there have been things he will only whisper about as if he is afraid that speaking them outloud will make them real again.
Richman captured all that and more, and more.
If you read one book in the next month, please make it this one.
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