On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we encourage you to take a break from your everyday worries and get lost in a great book! Marion Winik reviews Edmund White's A Saint from Texas, and Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet.
Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf
A Saint from Texas, Edmund White, Riverhead
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