Nnnnnnext! This is my first Ami McKay. I'm also just coming down from finishing The Night Circus on audio, so I need something to wean me off that magic gently. So excited!

I'd read Chabon on anything. I love how his prose makes description disappear into something like art direction. His typically humane approach to characters is doubly amazing here for the tale's grounding in some sort of truth.

And, though this is ostensibly a book about his grandfather, it's at least as much about the ways in which violence determined the course of his family, particularly his mother and grandmother. Recommended.

I found this nugget of 70s CanLit cover glory while weeding the French collection today.

Parts of this book read like a National Geographic special, but with humans instead of animals. I'm into it.

For a couple weeks, Homegoing was my gorgeous distraction from toddler mayhem. This one will be huge for bookclubs, and it should be. It will certainly make my Best of 2016.