Review by Sarah Weinman “The most genuine happiness cannot be so pure, so deep, or so blind,” announces Ella Beene near the beginning of Sere Prince Halverson’s emotionally rich debut novel. For Ella, thirty-five and “not a physical beauty – not ugly, but nothing near what I’d look like if I’d had a say in the matter” – this is a hard-won conclusion, arrived at after a painful childhood and first marriage. But she’s spent the past three years in a blissful state, married to grocery store owner Joe Capozzi, stepmother to his two young children Annie and Zach, and […]
