Janet Hubbs: 2 books

Based on a local crime and set against the lull before everything changed for America in the summer of 2001, this novel looks at people battered by the happenstance of their own lives and by the defining event of the turn of the century, the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. The novel is concerned with how people survive and how some even manage to reach a state of grace.

Divorces are fascinatingunless theyre yours. This is the story of one divorce, told by one of its participants, who discovers that divorce is truly the art of losing, an art, as it turns out, that no one masters or even handles very well. Experience the death of Jimmys marriage, told against the backdrop of crime and obsession, as narrated in this quietly compelling novel.