Catherine Newman on Blending the Everyday with the Unimaginable in Her New Novel, ‘Wreck’
Fiftysomething mother and writer Rocky, the protagonist of Catherine Newman’s 2024 novel Sandwich and its new sequel, Wreck (out on Tuesday from HarperCollins), would likely laugh at my use of an ancient Gregorian chant to summarize her life philosophy. But in Sandwich and Wreck’s skillful fusing of the worst parts of life (infertility, wrongful death, chronic...
