cover image Harmony

Harmony

Susan Taylor Chehak. Fawcett Books, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-22102-0

Chehak skillfully depicts small-town meanness and ironic generosity in this mesmerizing if melodramatic tale, a Literary Guild selection in cloth, of a Midwestern couple, their violent past and a youthful unwed mother who comes between them. (Mar.)