beach reads

an homage to my mom’s weekly book column

most people don’t know that on top of working full time, parenting full time (more than full time these days), serving as co-president of our temple, and doing a host of other things I don’t understand how she finds time in the day for, my mom writes a weekly column for the groton long point news during the summer. it’s a print-only paper in the summer town of around 6,000 people where my mom grew up spending summers with her family. she now gets a week or two there each summer if she’s lucky, but she’s pen pals with the community from the west coast via her “beach reads” column, where she recommends a list of new books each week…

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