Atlantic Ave Magazine - April 2020 Issue

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entertainment | gotta read By lisa marie
Shame On You
by Amy Heydenrych
Released April 1st
Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself?
Have you ever lied about who
you are to get more likes? Have you ever
followed someone online who you think
is perfect? Meet Holly. Social media sensation.
The face of clean eating. Everyone
loves her. Everyone wants to be her. But
when Holly is attacked by a man she’s
only just met, her life starts to spiral out of
control. He seemed to know her - but she
doesn’t know him. What if Holly isn’t who
she seems to be? What if Holly’s living a lie?
Readhead by the
Side of the Road
by Anne Tyler
Released April 7th
From the beloved and best-selling
Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel
about misperception, second chances,
and the sometimes-elusive power of human
connection.
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A
self-employed tech expert, superintendent
of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious
to a fault behind the steering wheel,
he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed
life. But one day his routines are
blown apart when his woman friend (he
refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a
“girlfriend”) tells him she’s facing eviction,
and a teenager shows up at Micah’s door
claiming to be his son. These surprises, and
the ways they throw Micah’s meticulously
organized life off-kilter, risk changing him
forever. An intimate look into the heart and
mind of a man who finds those around him
just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply
compassionate story about seeing the
world through new eyes, “Redhead by the
Side of the Road” is a triumph, filled with
Anne Tyler’s signature wit and gimlet-eyed
observation.
Truths I Never
Told You
by Kelly Rimmer
Released April 14th
From the bestselling author of “The
Things We Cannot Say” comes a poignant
post-WWII novel that explores the
expectations society places on women
set within an engrossing family mystery
that may unravel everything once believed
to be true.
With her father recently moved to a care
facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out
the family home and is surprised to discover
the door to her childhood playroom padlocked.
She’s even more shocked at what’s
behind it - a hoarder’s mess of her father’s
paintings, mounds of discarded papers and
miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously
tidy house.
As she picks through the clutter, she finds
a loose journal entry in what appears to be
her late mother’s handwriting. Beth and
her siblings grew up believing their mother
died in a car accident when they were little
more than toddlers, but this note suggests
something much darker.
Beth soon pieces together a disturbing
portrait of a woman suffering from postpartum
depression and a husband who
bears little resemblance to the loving father
Beth and her siblings know. With a
newborn of her own and struggling with
motherhood, Beth finds there may be more
tying her, and her mother together than she
ever suspected.
Sunrise On
Half Moon Bay
by Robyn Carr
Released April 14th
Sometimes the happiness we’re looking
for has been there all along…
Adele and Justine have never been
close. Born twenty years apart, Justine
was already an adult when Addie was
born. The sisters love each other but they
don’t really know each other.
When Addie dropped out of university
to care for their ailing parents, Justine, a
successful lawyer, covered the expenses.
It was the best arrangement at the time
but now that their parents are gone, the
future has changed dramatically for both
women.
Addie had great plans for her life but
has been worn down by the pressures of
being a caregiver and doesn’t know how
to live for herself. And Justine’s success
has come at a price. Her marriage is falling
apart despite her best efforts.
Neither woman knows how to start life
over, but both realize they can and must
support each other the way only sisters
can. Together they find the strength to
accept their failures and overcome their
challenges. Happiness is within reach, if
only they have the courage to fight for it.
Set in the stunning coastal town of Half
Moon Bay, California, Robyn Carr’s new
novel examines the joys of sisterhood and
the importance of embracing change.
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