Still Life with Bread Crumbs

submitted by Mary Lynn McCaffrey:  The heroine of  Anna Quindlen’s new best-seller, Still Life With Bread Crumbs (#5 on last week’s NYT list), is a Mount Holyoke graduate, a fact mentioned several times in the novel.  Still Life With Bread Crumbs is a reference to our MHC heroine’s early success with her photographs of domestic scenes.  NPR called the book “the literary equivalent of comfort food” but it’s charming and easily digested, if a touch unrealistic – ( how is it so many middle-aged women move to  remote villages populated primarily with hunky carpenters?)  All-in-all, a good book to get us through winter doldrums which we’ve had too much of in North Jersey!  My Irish father always claimed St. Patrick’s Day as the first day of Spring – may it be so for all of us.