Thursday, October 29, 2026
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi is uplifting small-town literary fiction about an 86-year-old stranger who buys pencil portraits of the locals and gives them back for the price of a story. It's a slow, lyrical, tender debut novel about generosity and grief, best read in small doses.
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