Book Sense Pick Becomes Latest Today Book Club Read

On Monday, September 27, novelist Ann Patchett selected Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin) as the next title to be read by the NBC Today Show's Today Book Club. The title was previously selected by independent booksellers with Book Sense as a September Pick.

In her nomination of Heir to the Glimmering World as a Book Sense Pick, Laurie Greer of Politics & Prose Books & Coffee in Washington, D.C., said, "Cynthia Ozick’s new novel brings to life the ferment that was New York in the 1930s, with its traumatized German-Jewish refugees and its homegrown idealists itching to fight Fascists in Spain. Ozick weaves a dark fairy tale into the realism of the Depression, creating a moving novel of dreams, faith, and fortune."

For the complete September Picks list, click here. For more about the Today Book Club, go to www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6108508/.