Elizabeth Berg
~Extremely poignant. I like her early work better, up till 2000, however, I still appreciate her work. She is able to put the inner most workings of a woman's mind onto paper. Sometimes a sentence can bring a tear to your eye.
Durable Goods
Joy School
Never Change
Open House
Ordinary Life: Stories
The Pull of the Moon
Range of Motion
Talk Before Sleep
True to Form
Until the Real Thing Comes Along: A Novel
Elinor Lipman
~Very, very funny. A flip side of Berg.
The Dearly Departed
The Inn at Lake Devine
Into Love and Out Again: Stories
Isabel's Bed
The Ladies' Man
Then She Found Me
The Way Men Act: A Novel
Anna Quindlen
~Somewhat deeper than Berg in a "wordy kind of way."
Black and Blue
Living Out Loud
Object Lessons
One True Thing
Other People's Weddings by Noah Hawley
