Writers Read: What Is Isabel Booth Reading?
For the Writers Read blog, Isabel Booth writes about two novels she read to prepare for her neighborhood book clubs. She calls Chris Whitaker's 595-page All the Colors of the Dark — a missing-person mystery, serial-killer thriller, and love story set in small-town Missouri — engrossing to the end, with an ending that lands its twists without feeling contrived. She also discusses Virginia Evans's The Correspondent, an epistolary novel following a 72-year-old retired attorney going blind, praising its late-in-life look at change and its prickly, often funny narrator.
