1538-Lex-Bag-All-This-Could-Be-Yours by A Way with Words

Grant recommends the book All This Could Be Yours, the latest novel by Jami Attenberg. A dark glimpse of a family with an imperious father in a coma, and the family comes to terms with his life and effect on them. If you're familiar with her earlier book The Middlesteins, you'll recognize the same sharp, well-observed writing. Other recommendations for the book lovers on your holiday gift list: A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, the lavishly illustrated anthology of letters edited by Maria Popova of Brainpickings and Claudia Bedrick, and Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language is a smart, engaging, introduction to language and linguistics by linguist Gretchen McCulloch. http://waywordradio.org