The Short List of Things to Do

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Red Hook Road

Reenie Raschke

A gorgeous young couple get married on a gorgeous summer afternoon in Maine. Later that day, they die in a car accident. Ayelet Waldman's novel charts the fallout between their two families — one rich, one not — with a moving mix of melodrama and intuition.

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