A wedding brings out the best and worst in people. Tensions run high, as do the comedic and dramatic possibilities during a wedding taking place in the shattered world of the 2008 Great Recession. The Pulitzer and National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich captures it all in The Mighty Red,

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. The big books of fall are like tomatoes, or zucchini: You look forward to them all summer and when they finally arrive, in a rush, you have more than you can handle.