It's a memoir titled The Boys of My Youth . She likes it. Sophia hands me a copy of Alice Walker's novel, The Temple of My Familiar . The Temple of My Familiar is her brilliant addition to that achievement, a New York Times bestseller that further established her as one of the most important literary voices of our time. Good questions, I told her.
Book jackets are models of clarity compared to the overwrought phrases in publishers' catalogs.
This ghost has the cure. A new Haunting Hearts Romance. The carcasses lie around in the recycle bin and they are no fun at all to read. Without covers they lose their mystical power to attract readers. When you read a book you no longer are looking at the cover, so the glossy picture really shouldn't matter once you've begun.