Five and Ten – debut
by Darnell Arnoult

It’s day one for Five and Ten, a regular Friday post of recommended reads from friends of Dancing with the Gorilla.

I’ve changed the name of this feature several times, trying to settle on the right handle. I’m going with Five and Ten because the first books I read were purchased at the dimestore,  two of my favorite authors grew up in the aisles of their fathers’ Ben Franklin dimestores: Lee Smith and Michael Lee West,  and because almost everyone I asked for a list of five books begged to give me ten.

Whatever the handle, I hope you enjoy looking back at a decade of good reading as we step off into the next ten years of this still new century.