AMERICAN MOTHER
by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
(Bloomsbury, $34.99)
“Families of hostages are going through something similar throughout the world, staring at the empty chair at the family table.
If your spouse dies, you are a widow or widower; if your parents die, you are an orphan. But, as bereaved mother Diane Foley notes in her searing new memoir, what are you if your child dies, and in fact is murdered cruelly in full view of the world? “There’s no specific word for it in the English language … What
