BOOKS: Ordinary life takes troubling turn in new novel

Jane Ammeson Times Correspondent

Catherine Newman highlights life’s vulnerabilities by opening her latest novel, “Wreck,” with a quote from the late Nora Ephron: “Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know — it’s everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.”