Currently Reading: Stork Mountain and Henry and June

New to me: Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov. From the publisher:

In Stork Mountain, a young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly broke contact with the family three years earlier. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone’s throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains—a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where men and women, possessed by Christian saints, dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. The past will surrender its shameful secrets, as old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew.

And a reread, inspired by Secret Scribbled Notebooks: Henry and June by Anaïs Nin. I haven’t read this one since I was a teen. I don’t know that this will be an all-the-way-through read. More of a dip-in-and-out read.

From the publisher:

The best-selling, uncensored diary of Anaïs Nin during the year she spent with Henry Miller and his wife in Paris—a thrilling and passionate account of sexual awakening.

From the original, uncensored journals of Anaïs Nin, Henry and June spans a single year in Nin’s life when she discovers love and torment in one insatiable couple. From later 1931 to the end of 1932, Nin falls in love with Henry Miller’s writing and his wife June’s striking beauty. When June leaves Paris for New York, Henry and Anaïs begin a fiery affair that liberates her sexually and morally, but also undermines her marriage and eventually leads to her psychoanalysis. As she grapples with her own conscience, a single question dominates her thoughts: What will happen when June returns to Paris? An intimate story of one woman’s sexual awakening, Henry and June exposes the pain and pleasure of a single person trapped between two loves.