'Brother of the More Famous Jack' finds its way to a new generation of readers

It is hard not to fall in love with Katherine Browne, the eager to please, mini-skirted narrator in Barbara Trapido's 40-plus-year-old debut novel, reissued this month.

It is hard not to fall in love with Katherine Browne, the eager to please, mini-skirted narrator in Barbara Trapido's 40-plus-year-old debut novel, reissued this month.

Like his previous work, including Homeland Elegies, The Radiance exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity.