Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Why I have it: Not sure.

Summary: Teenager Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of modelling. When her career crashes, she moves to New York to build a new life. There she meets Veronica – an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style. Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alison’s reentry into the seductive realm of fashion, but also Veronica’s terrible descent into the then-uncharted realm of AIDS.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Hard Copy by Fien Valdman

Why I have it: saw it in a bookshop and thought ‘Weird!’.

Summary: A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams.

I’m thinking: Maybe.

How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum

Why I have it: popped up as a ‘suggested read’ for me.

Summary: Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she’s never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. The woman struggles to understand how a relationship that began in bliss – a mother besotted with her only child – arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance.

I’m thinking: Yes.

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