A while back, I signed up for Alfred A. Knopf's First Reads program. Each month they pick some of those who have signed up to send an advance copy of a new book. Apparently I was selected this month, because I just received a copy of Suite Française, a novel by Irène Némirovsky. Némirovsky wrote Suite Française in the early 1940's while living in France and fleeing the Nazis. The Suite was originally planned as five parts, but Némirovsky was only able to complete the first two before dying of typhus at Auschwitz. The first part, Storm in June, is what Knopf sent me; I am looking forward to reading it.