Doctor O is Shelf Life's pick of the week!

Doctor Olaf is "Pick of the week" in this week's Shelf Life column for the Boston Globe:

Christopher Castellani, author of "The Saint of Lost Things" and director of Grub Street, recommends "Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain," by Kirsten Menger-Anderson (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill): "Tracing 12 generations of doctors as they seek a cure for pain and madness, these linked stories masterfully combine the fascinating and utterly strange history of medicine with a colorful history of New York City. The characters are vivid and unforgettable; Menger-Anderson's sensibility is wholly original."

To read Jan Gardner's entire column, see Shelf Life.