I finished both The Burn Palace, by Stephen Dobyns and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman. The former is a riveting story about a town seemingly being taken over by an evil force. And the latter I read as an ebook and if you get a synopsis its usually short and thin on detail. It begins as a caustically funny story about a woman who is stepmother to a precocious five year old and quite suddenly the rug is pulled out from under the reader....but that's all I will say. Ms Waldman constructs the narrative beautifully. It was an emotional roller coaster of a read.