Books: Mary Gordon

"To The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf. As close to poetry as a novel can get.

A book that, upon rereading, was disappointing:
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger. As a teenager, I thought it was the most profound text imaginable. As an adult, it seemed easy and slick.

A book you care most about sharing with your children:
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. So that they can understand a witty woman is the most desirable, and so that we could have conversations about the Bennets in the way we might about the people down the block.

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