Jo’s Pick of the Week: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
A house divided against itself cannot stand.Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858 Karen Joy Fowler's first novel in nine years, Booth, is one of the buzziest books of spring, and it deserves all the praise it is getting. We all know that John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. But I knew little about Booth's family until reading…
