‘Houselust’ in Cleveland, Broken Promises in Asbury Park

House: A Memoir, by Michael Ruhlman. Viking, 243 pages, $24.95

4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land, by Daniel Wolff. Bloomsbury, 278 pages, $24.95

In July of 2001, author Michael Ruhlman ( The Soul of a Chef, Walk on Water) and his wife, photographer Donna Turner-Ruhlman, entered a large, century-old house Read More