Only the Heart Knows How to Find Them: 2precious Memories for a Faithless Time

Christopher De Vinck. Penguin Books, $10 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-14-016947-8

This collection of memories of ordinary daily life with and without family and friends has a quiet, poetic wisdom that will resonate for many. (Mar.)

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