Home, by Marilynne Robinson

Remember how much I loved Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead? Home is not exactly the sequel, but the companion volume to Gilead, brandly-newly released.  And, if possible, I love it more than Gilead.
The story of Home occurs concurrently with the story of Gilead, among the same characters but told from a different point of view that [...]

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, by Gabor Mate

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a wide-ranging look at the topic of addiction from a doctor who has had plenty of opportunity to study it.  Gabor Mate works at a clinic in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown East Side district, an area rife with homelessness and hard drug abuse.  In this book Mate explores addiction [...]