Reader's Place: Sept 28, 2020
READERS PLACE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Of late, journalists have been under attack, their professional ethics and morals impugned. Here are several novels and a memoir that regard the demanding, frequently lonely lives of women journalists.
In the land of men: A memoir, by Adrienne Miller, 2020. Library Catalog , Hoopla
At twenty-two, midwesterner Adrienne Miller was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ. The mid-nineties were still the golden age of print journalism, and a publication like GQ then seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. With wit and deep intelligence, Miller presents a moving portrayal of a young woman's education in a land of men.
Kiss the girls and make them cry , by Mary Higgins Clark, 2019. Library Catalog , eBook
When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "CRyan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. When another accuser turns up dead, Gina realizes someone--or some people--will go to depraved lengths to keep the story from seeing the light.
The storyteller's secret: A novel , by Sejal Badani, 2018. Library Catalog , Hoopla
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.
Love and ruin: a novel, by Paula McLain, 2018. Library Catalog , eBook , eAudio
In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. She finds herself unexpectedly--and uncontrollably--falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For Whom the Bell Tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must make a choice: surrender to the confining demands of being a famous man's wife or risk losing Ernest by forging a path as her own woman and writer.
Compiled by Ina Rimpau