11/5: emmeline

I received the latest catalog from Persephone Books last week and had a chance to look through it this weekend.  They reprint books that they love and that the original publishers have let fall out of print--and one of their picks this season is Emmeline by Judith Rossner.  I read this book a long time ago, when I was in high school:  my mother had read it when it was published and enjoyed it, and a few years later she recommended it to me.  Some of its scenes are still vivid in my head thirty+ years later, and I'm glad that the Persephone edition will bring it to new readers.