The Five Wounds - Your Read
What are you reading? A beloved question, fallen into tragic disuse. Let’s bring it back. Read, not to prove anything to anybody, but to dust off receptors in your brain that have gone creaky since you upgraded to an iPhone 12. Wag recommends you plunge into The Five Wounds, the award-winning novel by Kirstin Valdez Quade, a wry story of harried fathers and problem daughters set in New Mexico.
Nonfiction Bonus: Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's vivisection of the diabolical Sackler drug dynasty. —Bathsheba Everdene