February's Books

 

Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright

A bag of money drops from the sky, nearly hitting a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He and his wife Ambience are finally able to buy everything they wanted, and some things they didn’t know they wanted. Cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes, luxury travel and sex are some of their splurges. They spread the money around among family, friends, and strangers.

Of course, the money’s owner misses it and does what he can to get it back. Wright’s black humor is similar to authors Christopher Moore and Rom Robbins.

 

Death on the Diversion by Patricia McLinn
There's a Hair in My Dirt! a worm's story by Gary Larson
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
In Desperation by Rick Mofina
Night School by Lee Child
Iced Under by Barbara Ross
The Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Pamela Mingle
Stowed Away by Barbara Ross
The Clergyman's Wife by Molly Greeley
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright
Careless Whiskers by Miranda James
Long Time No See by Susan Isaacs
A Death at the Yoga Cafe by Michelle Kelly
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark

Buddha in the Attic

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

The author tells the story of “picture brides,” young Japanese women brought to the United States in the early twentieth century to marry men sight unseen. In spare prose, in turns eloquent and brutal,

She tells the story of the women—some only girls—and their hopes about their future husbands. The reflect on their lives in Japan and their future life in America, the voyage across the ocean, their disappointment in their husbands, sex, work, children, and their incarceration in prison camps during World War II. A slim book but with powerful stories to tell.