Books by Jamie Brenner and Complete Book Reviews
Jamie Brenner. Little, Brown, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-39487-1
Clunky characterizations mar Brenner’s (The Wedding Sisters) novel about three generations of women linked by a DNA test. When 22-year-old Rachel Moscowitz contacts 30-year-old second-generation attorney Marin Bishop with news that they may be half-s
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Jamie Brenner. Little, Brown, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-47679-9
An apparent conflict of interest melts into the comfort of chosen community in this warmhearted, personal story with Hamptons ambience. Emma Mapson, desk clerk at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor, N.Y., is as shocked as anyone when artist Henry...
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Jamie Brenner. Little, Brown, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-47685-0
Brenner (The Forever Summer) takes readers to a small Cape Cod beach community where an abandoned baby becomes the talk of the town. When newly retired Ruth Cooperman moves to Provincetown, Mass., she is hoping to slow down. Then she finds an...
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Jamie Brenner. Putnam, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-08575-2
Brenner’s lovely latest (after Summer Longing) begs to be read with a view and a glass of wine as three generations of Hollander women—and the men who orbit them—come together at their family’s struggling winery, each fighting their own inner...
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Jamie Brenner. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-08782-4
Brenner (Blush) shines in this tale about the women behind a Manhattan jewelry empire. Ruthless Elodie Pavlin is willing to do anything to remain CEO of one of New York City’s most venerable jewelry stores, and her estranged niece, Gemma Maybrook,...
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