Michael Hainey's After Visiting Friends
I don't normally read much nonfiction, but this memoir--about GQ editor Hainey's attempts to uncover what happened the night his father died in 1970, when Hainey was only six, sounded pretty compelling. And it was! It did occasionally get a bit overly writer-ly, but most of the time I was caught up in the story (especially during the scenes with his mother). And all the details of a 1960s newspaper were really stellar (Hainey's father was a newspaperman, which complicates things for Hainey's search). This is a great one for people who like stories involving FAMILY SECRETS and SECRETS OF THE PAST, ie drama and tragedy. Great stuff. A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in February.
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