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The Exact and Very Strange
hen I was in
Truth these days. I don't know
my late teens I
why. There are plenty of spy
was wander-
stories (I read those late at
ing around
night when I don't need to
the house one summer, looking
concentrate much), romances
for something to do. My moth-
(I never liked these) and actor
er suggested I read a book she
autobiographies
(yawn). But
had received from a friend,
great books about everyday
called The Exact and Veiy
people
are scarce.
by
Ben
Piazza.
Strange Truth
Since having children, I've
I started to read it, and I did-
become es-
n't stop.
pecially
It's the
fond of
story of a
poignant
large hal-
stories. In-
ian-
variably, I
Catholic
see part of
family, and
my own life
especially
in them. I
of one of
like it, too,
the boys,
that they
Alexander.
Adina and Talya Applebaum
already
love
reading.
seem to al-
Usually, I
ways
get to
have a bad
the soul of living, to the things
memory for films and books. I
that really matter. In one scene
forget plots and characters, and
in The Exact and Very Strange
even pivotal moments (like the
Truth Alexander, his sister and
real identity of the bad guy, or
brother take their widowed
where the lost treasure was
mother to see Gone With the
buried). This one I remember.
Wind But because their moth-
Some of this may have to do
er cannot walk well after a
with the fact that I love the
stroke, her young children help
book so much I have read it
her into a wagon, then pull her
several times. More likely it's
to the theater. Time and again I
the skill of the author, a man
return to this moment — the
with that most unusual of tal-
heartache of it, and the tender-
ents: the ability to write power-
ness.
fully, colorfully, masterfully
If you have a favorite book
without being maudlin.
like this, please write and tell
So far as I know, The Exact
me. I'm asking for selfish rea-
and Very Strange Truth is the
sons (I'm always on the look-
only book Mr. Piazza wrote.
out for good reading), but also
But he's also an actor, and I see
for a story I would like to write
him from time to time in
on great family books. I look
movies and on TV. Many years
forward to hearing from you.
ago I first saw him in an
episode of "The Waltons." It
was pure heaven — my fa-
vorite author on my favorite
television show.
laizabeth Applebaum
It's hard to find books like
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