KRISTIN HANNAH’S, “WINTER GARDEN.”

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There is one characteristic that is prevalent in every great writer’s works and that is the unmistakeable quality of “honesty.” Most people are lucky to write one honest sentence in their lives. The great novelists, poets, and playwrights, past and present, have managed to write tens of thousands of pages that exhibit honesty at its core.

Kristen Hannah’s novel, “Winter Garden,”manages to do just get. At its core is the functioning of a family looking for an identity through the inscrutable and enigmatic behavior of their mother. The story is told with such power and honesty that days after I finished reading it I can’t get it out of my mind. Truly, an amazing accomplishment.

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Joseph Sciuto was born and raised in New York City, where he spent his early years listening to his Italian-American grandmother’s vivid stories about how their family was responsible for building much of the impressive Manhattan skyline, including the Empire State Building. The rich flavor of her stories about their family’s heritage still works its way through his writing. Sciuto holds degrees from both John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Stony Brook University and a certificate in film studies from New York University. After studying psychology, film, theater, literature, and English as an undergraduate, he relocated to Southern California to attend graduate school at Loyola Marymount University, where he studied writing and film. Sciuto's next novel, SOFIA, is available on June 27, 2019, following the success of HOLLYWOOD RIPTIDE, TARGETED DEMOGRAPHICS and PER VERSE VENGEANCE.

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