President Obama is on his nine day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife Michelle and their two daughters. Obama’s past reading selections have included Netherland by Joseph O’Neil and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. This time he brought almost all novels.
Winter’s Bone author Daniel Woodrell’s The Bayou Trilogy, is a trio of “Country Noir” novels. Rodin’s Debutante by Ward Just is a coming of age boarding school tale in postwar era Chicago, where Obama started his political career.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is about twin boys in Ethiopia raised by an Indian nun, one of whom turns out to be a doctor. To the End of the Land by David Grossman is a book about war in Israel and the relationship between a woman and her two sons, each fathered by different men.
President Obama does have a nonfiction book on his reading list: Pulitzer Prize Winner Isabel Wilkerson’s A Warmth of Other Suns, about the migration of black southerners to the North and Midwest. It looks like Obama has some good reading material for his days on Martha’s Vineyard.
