Academy street vs Object Lessons: Which Should You Read?

Academy street Mary Costello · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.7 192 pages · ≈ 3 h 33 m · Moderate

"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who…

Object Lessons Anna Quindlen · 1991 ★★★★☆ 3.9 262 pages · ≈ 4 h 51 m · Moderate

“EVER AFTER, WHENEVER SHE SMELLED THE PECULIAR ODOR of new construction, of pine planking and plastic plumbing pipes, she would think of that summer, think of it as the time of changes.”

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object…