Valentine: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Elizabeth Wetmore

Book Overview

An instant New York Times Bestseller

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

A thrilling debut that deserves your attention. -Ron Charles, the Washington Post

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062913263
• ISBN13: 9780062913265
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Authentic and heart-wrenching

I just finished Valentine at about six o'clock this morning. I woke at four, it was calling to me, and I couldn't say no. Elizabeth Wetmore's writing style is as spare and merciless as the West Texas country she describes. There's very little room for error in the desert, especially for women in the 1970s, and her elegiac prose captures the sense of strandedness that each of her female characters endures with a poignant realism that hit this native Texan right in the heart.