Goldberg is known for the best-selling Bee Season, a novel that adeptly portrays a family’s unraveling in its desperate search for some sense of fulfillment. In her follow-up novel, Wickett’s Remedy, Goldberg’s smooth writing continues to make suffering, this time from World War I and influenza, seem beautiful. The book is filled with voices: the dead whisper in the margins and newspaper clippings tacked on to the ends of chapters. While it seems a bit contrived on the page, it should make for an interesting bookstore reading: Do you suppose she travels with a chorus to incant in the background? 3225 Galleria, Edina; 952-920-0633
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