“Tree. Table. Book” and “Not Nothing” feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories. By Jennifer Howard Jennifer Howard is the author of “Clutter: An Untidy History.” ...
Lowry (Gossamer) movingly explores the unusual, intergenerational friendship between two Sophies: widowed 88-year-old Polish-born Sophie Gershowitz and 11-year-old Sophie Winslow, next-door neighbors ...