A new title to add to your TBR pile. . . Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew, a nonfiction book by Suzanne Berne, who teaches in Boston College’s English Department, will be published in October. The author describes the book: “A daughter tries to give her dying father the mother he never really knew–and about whom little is known. Through a box of trinkets and photographs she begins to reconstruct a woman who has been missing from the family for 75 years. By doing so, she finds the father she has been missing herself.”

Read an excerpt from Boston College Magazine.

Berne is the author of The Ghost at the Table and A Crime in the Neighborhood, which won Great Britain’s Orange Prize.