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Jane Smiley, author of Early Warning

EARLY WARNING opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth (for some) of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world.

Week of January 11, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of January 11th include MISSOULA by Jon Krakauer, a meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ­--- stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape; A GOD IN RUINS, the follow-up to Kate Atkinson's LIFE AFTER LIFE, which tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula Todd's beloved younger brother, Teddy, as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; and DOUBLE DOUBLE, a dual memoir in which award-winning mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, offer two points of view on their struggles with alcoholism.