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Jonathan Hull spent ten years working at Time magazine in various positions, including Jerusalem bureau chief and as a national correspondent, winning several prestigious awards along the way. Now writing fiction full-time, he lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and two children.
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The Distance from Normandy
A new novel from the author of Losing Julia. Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later, when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-and has haunted him ever since.
His grandson Andrew, a scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right. At first, the two circle warily around each other, finding little in common. Then Andrew befriends a widow named Evelyn, and Mead busies himself fending off the match, even as he feels a reluctant attraction to this cheerful woman who seems to understand his grandson.
One afternoon, rummaging through the garage, Andrew discovers an antique Luger, the deadly memento of his grandfather's war. In a final effort to save his grandson from himself, Mead takes the teenager on a journey to the beaches, bunkers, and cemeteries of Normandy, where both of them confront the secrets they have been trying to forget.
Jonathan Hull's Summer Reading List
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
Part one of Graves's two-part fictional autobiography of Tiberious Claudius, who became Emperor of Rome in 41 A.D. I?m setting this aside for a trip to Italy this summer.
Napoleon Bonaparte
by Alan Schom
A nearly 800-page portal to the past.
Love, etc.
by Julian Barnes
Follow up to Talking it Over, in which Barnes further irrigates a triangle of love, sex and betrayal.
The Possessed
by Feodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The world of nihilists and revolutionaries in 19th Century Russia by one of my favorites.
Alan Ginsberg: Spontaneous Mind, Selected Interviews 1958-1996
Edited by David Carter
A dense dessert I will consume in small bites.
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