What do you recommend?

“I’m reading Rufi Thorpe’s ‘Dear Fang, With Love,’ a hauntingly beautiful novel about a father and daughter traveling to Lithuania. They’re in search of answers about their family’s past but also, more pressingly, struggling to figure out how to deal with the traumas of their present. The story grapples with absentee fathers, legendary matriarchs, mental illness, theodicy, adolescent love and the persistence of hope in the face of suffering, and somehow, Thorpe weaves all these threads together into an enthralling narrative that has me desperate to keep turning the page.”

Robin Wasserman, author of “Girls on Fire”

This story was originally published August 5, 2016 at 12:13 PM with the headline "What do you recommend?."