Listen "Armchair Travel: New novels from Isabel Allende and Christopher Bollen. "
Episode Synopsis
Want to get away? On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels that take us to exotic locales, replete with intriguing characters and plenty of plot twists. Our book critic Marion Winik shares her thoughts on Isabel Allende's A Long Petal of the Sea and Christopher Bollen's A Beautiful Crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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