In the afterword, Lara describes the experience in poignant detail: Over the course of several years, she read the book aloud to her mother multiple times, until the characters came to feel like Lara and Marianne’s family. She enlisted the help of her daughter, Lara Porzak, to help her complete the 517-page novel. The Pulitzer finalist (and ex-wife of Salman Rushdie), now 75, not only lost the ability to write but forgot what she had already written. Wiggins was nearly finished writing the book when, in 2016, she had a massive stroke. In fact, I had wanted to write a feature about it because of its amazing backstory. Conveniently, this book was already on my TBR pile. Who better to offer a book recommendation (other than the contributors to this column)? So, I asked my friend: What’s the best book you have read this year? Without skipping a beat, he answered: “ Properties of Thirst,” by Marianne Wiggins, which came out in paperback in May. I was lucky enough this summer to have a longtime librarian as a house guest.
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