These are the books magicmolly can't get out of her head this month
Photo: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 A child removes a stone from the shoreline, drops it into shallow water, and then spends ten minutes searching for that same stone. A seagull makes off with an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers. Parents order children to put on sandals, rub in sunscreen, be careful with the giant inflatable orca. A couple in their 80s debates whether someone’s daughter is a reasonable person, and after 15 minutes they conclude that she is not.
Instead, it is a gripping account of three teenagers who become radicalized and wind up at a jihadi training camp in Iraq. The teenagers converge for reasons that range from economic alienation to social-media indoctrination to existential despair to misogyny to lovesickness. One of them is English, and two are Pakistani; one is rich and two poor.
As they unravel the family secrets, the two women work on fishing boats and eat from XXXL-sized buckets of peanut butter, sleep in cars and go to parties where they aren’t welcome, muddle through swamps and get drunk in Panama City, meet strange men in deserts who quote Metallica lyrics like they’re scripture. This is a novel that feels like hitchhiking: The route is unpredictable but fated and exciting, with an air of treachery.
Here we have a tale of three oddniks in Trinidad. The oddniks are a widow, her moody teenage son, and her boarder. A dreadful secret haunts the household, and when the teenage son discovers it, he absconds to New York City. More secrets unfold as the tale slides back and forth between two islands of starkly different shape and flavor.
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