Jones is strikingly good on emotional legacies, how – as Larkin didn’t quite put it – woman hands on misery to woman. Although the big reveal isn’t wholly convincing, there’s plenty of tension. It should be plain sailing, but both women have secrets. Leslie, for reasons known only to herself, is desperate for the cash, and Mary wants to start over, so if the pair can pull off the con it’s win-win, and Mary accompanies Leslie back to Albuquerque to meet her husband and infant son. On meeting waitress and aspiring actor Mary, who bears enough resemblance to Robin for superficial changes to make her a plausible substitute, she offers a deal: her sister’s share of the loot in exchange for a successful impersonation. When Leslie tracks her prodigal sister down to a scruffy rented room in Las Vegas and discovers a corpse with a fake ID, she flees. If she doesn’t, she won’t get her inheritance: their father’s will stipulates that the women must appear together at the lawyer’s office in order for the money to be released. Some of my favorite books from book club and personal reading over the last few years have been from authors such as Jojo Moyes, Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ann Patchett, and many others.In American author Tanen Jones’s first novel, The Better Liar (Harvill Secker, £12.99), Leslie Flores needs to find her sister Robin, who absconded from the family home a decade earlier as a teenager. We welcome kindred spirits, so feel free to drop by and check us out. In Sister Reads, we choose a variety of books by authors of all backgrounds and nationalities, and we have a lovely core community of members attending our very relaxed monthly meetings. While I'm not opposed to the occasional light, happy, feel-good story, I am much more interested in stories that make me think, teach me something, help me to understand others, and completely immerse me in an interesting world or way of thought. I find myself much more discerning in the books and authors that I choose to read. Being involved in these three communities and Bookstagram has taken my reading to a whole new level. Vincent & the Grenadines called Page Turners+, which reviews books by Caribbean authors and interviews those authors when possible.
I’m part of a monthly book review television show out of St.
Now, I not only run my own online book club, Sister Reads, but I also belong to the Caribbean Book Club that formed during the pandemic.
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