Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Costco's book buyer, has chosen The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer (Ecco, $14.99, 9780062213792) as her pick of the month for December. In Costco Connection, which goes to many of the warehouse club's members, she wrote:
"While I try not to spend too much time imagining how different my life might be had I made different choices, I do think it's fun to imagine what my life would be like had I been born into a different generation.
"If you, too, like to imagine such things, I can't rave enough about this month's book buyer's pick, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer.
"When Greta Wells' twin brother dies and her lover leaves, she's prescribed electroshock therapy to help her deal with the grief. The treatment sends her to 1918 and 1941, where she finds her brother, her lover and an alternate version of herself.
"It's a beautiful story about the many faces of love and what a woman learns about herself from being able to visit those different times."
