What do you recommend?

“My mother wore the sun like a hat.” That’s the line that opens Kerry Kletter’s hauntingly lyrical debut novel, ‘The First Time She Drowned,’ and the moment I read it, she had me. It was the literary equivalent of love at first sight. As I read on, Kletter's story consumed me, broke me and mended me, and by the end it left me ravenous for more more of her beautiful prose.”

Romina Russell, author of “Black Moon,” book 3 in the Zodiac series

This story was originally published December 9, 2016 at 12:38 PM with the headline "What do you recommend?."