“Book Descriptions: What happens to a news reporter when she can’t report the news without breaking into tears? This is the problem Coralie Threlfell faces in Soft Features, a wise and witty novel set in Maine in 1994 about an overly empathetic public radio journalist whose attempts to find cheerful stories, or soft features, take her on a series of misadventures that only prove – time and again, in surprising ways – that even compassion is not for the faint of heart.” DRIVE