Catherine Newman, Author Penguin Books $15 (261p) ISBN 978-0-14-303477-3
A memoir is a success when it transcends the personal incidents about which it is written. So, while it's true that mothers expecting their second child will find the most to relate to in this expose of domestic life, Newman's volume is a success...
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Catherine Newman. Little, Brown, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-33750-2
Parents might be hoping for a guide to making childhood less messy, but Newman (Waiting for Birdy) will assuredly convince them that chaos is actually the funniest thing that could possibly happen. When the author's two-year-old throws a tantrum...
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Catherine Newman. Harper, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-323089-7
Newman’s moving adult debut (after the kids’ guide What Can I Say?) explores a lifelong friendship between two women, one of whom is dying. Set primarily in a hospice where Edi is dying of ovarian cancer, the story shifts between past and present to
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Catherine Newman. Harper, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-334516-4
Newman (We All Want Impossible Things) returns with a slight story about the pleasures of beach time and the trials of middle age. Rocky, an anxious and volatile writer in her 50s, spends a week at her family’s aging Cape Cod vacation cottage with...
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