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January 13, 2014 — Adrift : Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan On February 4, 1982, midway between the Canary Islands and Antigua, Callahan’s boat “Solo” was struck in the middle of the night by what he thinks was a whale. For 76 days, he drifted 1800 nautical miles across the Atlantic – the only man in history to survive more than a month alone at sea – in a leaky inflatable raft. This is an excellent account of surviving at sea and the ingenuity that…

January 13, 2014 — Other Romantic Comedies by Elinor Lipman Into Love and Out Again: Stories Lipman’s short stories are filled with sweet, complex people in unusual relationships: gentle Tim, for instance, falls madly in love with unwed Hannah, who is in the ninth month of her pregnancy; sad Clair at last finds a true lover but breaks off with him because she senses parental disapproval of his low status as a supermarket produce man; Martha and Carl tenderly, tenta…

January 13, 2014 — The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines Miss Jane Pittman is 110 when she recalls her childhood and the arrival of both Union and Confederate troops on the plantation where she lived, and her own personal journey toward freedom. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Seventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washingto…

January 13, 2014 — Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father. All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a …