NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She’d learned that the beginning of one’s life mattered the most, that life was too heavy in that way.” This family saga by Keane is the fictional story of two families, who begin as neighbors in 1973 New York. The husbands, both rookie pol...
NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Charley caught a scent of Louisiana on the June breeze; the aroma of red clay, peppery as cayenne, musty as compost, and beneath it, the hint of mildew and Gulf water.” Recently widowed, Charley Bordelon leaves the comforts of Los Angeles t...
NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Women shouldn’t judge one another’s lives, if we haven’t been through one another’s fires.” Lisa Taddeo traveled across America interviewing women about desire. The author blended into three women’s lives, learning their heartbreaks, hard d...
