Richard Alther: 2 books

THE SCAR LETTERS The victim of a brutal hate crime, never resolved, confronts his assailants eighteen years later, courting both violence and romance... "A beautiful, wonderfully readable, and uplifting novel of personal transformation and triumph. Warning: the first chapter is hard to read." -Toby Johnson,...

Having spent her life helping underprivileged women, Roxie, 88, is now content in her woodsy retreat her with her garden, yoga, and art. With his children launched, Fred, 48, has left his wife and uninspiring job to paint fulltime, shackled only with his demons of doubt. And then one day in a life drawing...