Staff picks for summer reading: True Grit

This is the first in what will be a recurring series of staff picks for summer reading this season. Josh Mrvos, our Director of Sales, weighs in this week with a quick appreciation of TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis. Portis is also one of my favorite authors, and I've written more here.
--John Mark

I read this on the plane ride back from Ann Arbor. I was familiar with the classic film based on Portis' novel but had never picked up the novel. What an understated work of genius. The voice of young Mattie is so assured that you forget she is a teenager. This book is for any fan of Cormac McCarthy and raises revenge to an art form.
--Josh