New adult fiction for Adriana Trigiani fans: Rare Objects
by eapearce
Kathleen Tessaro, bestselling author of 2013’s The Perfume Collector, presents readers with a compelling new novel in a fascinating setting: Depression-era Boston. In Rare Objects, first generation Irish immigrant Maeve Fanning is determined to better herself despite the hardships that surround her due to the Great Depression. She’s smart, curious and imaginative, but also has a fondness for strange men and bootleg alcohol, vices which ultimately lead her to a stint in a psychiatric hospital. While there, she strikes up a friendship with a woman who—like Maeve—cannot quell her desire for unladylike freedom.
When Maeve is released from the hospital, she starts over again in Boston, working at an antique shop patronized by the city’s wealthiest and most unusual citizens. One of these customers is none other than Diana, the woman that Maeve befriended at the hospital. Reunited, Maeve becomes increasingly entwined in the life of Diana and her family, and she is drawn into a world of deceit and moral ambiguity. How far is she really willing to go to “better” herself?
Tessaro paints an enticing and accurate picture of 1930s Boston, and her characters are vivid and alluring. Fans of Anita Diamant’s The Boston Girl and Adriana Trigiani’s The Shoemaker’s Wife won’t want to miss Rare Objects.
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