Pam Lewis' short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and other literary publications.Her books include Speak Softly, She Can Hear and the recently released Perfect Family.
Best-selling author Wally Lamb said of Perfect Family: "Pam Lewis is the literary equivalent of a forensic scientists. In her compelling second novel, Perfect Family, Lewis pulls the body of a beautiful young woman from a lake, then, layer by suspensful layer, unpeels and revels a well-to-do family's secrets, lies, and hidden heartaches. I was riveted."
Last week I asked Lewis what she was reading. Her reply:
I've just finished Haruki Murakami's After Dark. Normally I avoid anything that smacks of fantasy. I like stories solidly grounded in reality. But MRead an excerpt from Perfect Family, and learn more about the author and her work at Pam Lewis' website.urakami writes in a way that must mirror the concrete and abstract parts of our own minds because the fantasy in his stories is totally credible and satisfying.
Before that I was on a serious Harry Crews kick, finishing up with Classic Crews, the Harry Crews reader. I mean, talk about concrete — one of the stories is about a man who eats a car. You can't forget Harry Crews once you've read him.
Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin paperback, translated by Robin Buss) is next. I can't wait to start. I think I'll be lost in this story for weeks. It's a very fat paperback. A friend likened it to reading a meatloaf.
--Marshal Zeringue
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