When he selected her to win the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Charles Johnson said that Lucy Honig's fiction "brim(s) over with memorable characters" and has "a heart big enough to embrace the world in all its complexity and ambiguity." Her new novel Waiting for Rescue, about a Boston writing teacher haunted by the events of 9/11, has found its share of admirers, too - … [Read more...]