Summer Reading discusses a few new — or newly popular — genres hitting bookstands this summer:
Another wave of new books has been dubbed ‘hen lit’ (as in grown-up chick lit) for women of a certain age, and tend to deal with married rather than single life. These books, which didn’t make our list, include Simon & Schuster’s ‘The Master Quilter’ by Jennifer Chiaverini, about a circle of quilters facing troubled marriages and business failure, and Random House’s ‘Queen of the Big Time’ by Adriana Trigiani, which follows a woman from youth to her sixties, who moves from farm to city. In addition to hen lit, says Simon & Schuster Publisher David Rosenthal, look for books about people with illnesses and people who leave their jobs. ‘We call it ‘sick lit’ and ‘quit lit,’ ‘ Mr. Rosenthal says. ‘We’re doing whole lists of this.’