GOOD Books: Gifts for the Parents

Yup, it's December. Along with snow (or crazy winds if you're in southern California), hot chocolate, decked halls, and lights that shine bright, the holiday season comes with gifts. Chances are, you'll be giving at least one gift and if i

Bossypants
By Tina Fey
288 pages. Reagan Arthur Books. $14.48.

One reader expertly describes Tina Fey as “imperfect and stumbling,” an equally apt assessment for her memoir Bossypants. From the infamous

The New Yorker Stories
By Ann Beattie
544 pages. Scribner. $12.03.

Who owned the first copy of The New Yorker you ever opened? If it wasn’t your dentist’s, then chances are it was your parents&rsqu

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious—and Perplexing—City
By David Lebovitz
304 pages. Broadway. $10.99.

If kitchens were universities, then Chez Panisse would be in th

The Marriage Plot
By Jeffrey Eugenides
416 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $16.05.

Chances are, Jeffrey Eugenides was born around the same time as your parents: 1960. As a voice of their generation, his third novel in nea

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
By Patrick Hendrickson
544 pages. Knopf. $16.46.

Patrick Hendrickson presents a picture of Ernest Hemingway’s life from 1934 to 1961as he descen