Review
From the Jacket: It is at Walter’s
restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes
Greenie’s coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city
to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she
accepts—and finds herself heading west without her husband. This
impulsive decision will change the course of several lives
within and beyond Greenie’s orbit. Alan, alone in New York, must
face down his demons; Walter, eager for platonic distraction,
takes in his teenage nephew. Yet Walter cannot steer clear of
love trouble, and despite his enforced solitude, Alan is still
surrounded by women: his powerful sister, an old flame, and an
animal lover named Saga, who grapples with demons all her own.
Comment: If Julia Glass had limited her second...
Beyond the Book
Julia Glass's first novel,
Three Junes, won the 2002
National Book Award for Fiction. Her
fiction has been honored with a National
Endowment for the Arts Literature
Fellowship, a New York Foundation for
the Arts Fellowship, three Nelson Algren
Fiction Awards, the Tobias Wolff Award,
and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society
Medal for Best Novella. She spent the
2004-2005 academic year as a fellow at
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Studies, where she finished
The Whole
World Over. She is a longtime New
Yorker who now lives in Massachusetts
with her family.
