Frederick Reiken, Author . Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur $24.99 (326p) ISBN 978-0-316-07756-9
A novel with a sawbuck of narrators could easily devolve into an unreadable mess, but in Reiken's (The Lost Legends of New Jersey
) able hands becomes a compelling tale in which one thread deftly connects 10 people. Beverly Rabinowitz, a middle-
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Frederick Reiken, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-100360-0
Describing his elder brother's disappearance, Philip Shumway, the adolescent narrator of Reiken's carefully crafted debut, observes: ""There was no story except for the puzzling absence of a story."" Ethan Shumway, Philip's idolized, musically...
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Frederick Reiken, Author, Jane Isay, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100507-9
Elegiac and unsparingly direct, funny and poignant, this second novel by the author of the well-received The Odd Sea is a beautiful story about loss, hope and survival. Between the summer of 1979, when Anthony Rubin is 13, and the winter of 1983,...
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