Going Home marks the debut of a gifted writer whose readers will find themselves feeling better, somehow, about the world.
Going Home marks the debut of a gifted writer whose readers will find themselves feeling better, somehow, about the world.
Fiction
In Gliff, Ali Smith offers a paradoxical benediction over life in our increasingly anxious age: “Unbelievable believable hope. . . . Impossible, possible.”
In Gliff, Ali Smith offers a paradoxical benediction over life in our increasingly anxious age: “Unbelievable believable hope. . . . Impossible, possible.”
Fast-paced, engaging and surprising, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose long-ago summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.
Fast-paced, engaging and surprising, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose long-ago summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.
We would kill for another novel from Torrey Peters, author of the simultaneously heart-wrenching and deeply entertaining Detransition, Baby—but we’ll settle for a novella and three stories. Each of these pulls Peters’ style in a new direction, with the titular novella featuring a “stag dance” among isolated overwintering lumberjacks.
We would kill for another novel from Torrey Peters, author of the simultaneously heart-wrenching and deeply entertaining Detransition, Baby—but we’ll settle for a novella and three stories. Each of these pulls Peters’ style in a new direction, with the titular novella featuring a “stag…
This is a charming premise: After a 23-month coma, Jack Jr. wakes up to find his Manhattan life has evaporated and a global pandemic has set in. Where in this bewildering new world can he begin again? At his Umma and Appa’s sushi restaurant, back in Jersey. Jinwoo Chong, the author of Flux, offers guaranteed laughter and even a chance of romance in this promising sophomore novel.
This is a charming premise: After a 23-month coma, Jack Jr. wakes up to find his Manhattan life has evaporated and a global pandemic has set in. Where in this bewildering new world can he begin again? At his Umma and Appa’s sushi restaurant, back…
From the sweeping success of his debut, A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman has consistently charmed readers with his vivid prose and unique narratives. As always, in My Friends, Backman’s characters take center stage. Our protagonist is 18-year-old artist Louisa, who, after noticing a cluster of figures in the background of a famous painting, becomes determined to uncover the origin of the painting and the story of the mysterious friends it depicts.
From the sweeping success of his debut, A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman has consistently charmed readers with his vivid prose and unique narratives. As always, in My Friends, Backman’s characters take center stage. Our protagonist is 18-year-old artist Louisa, who, after noticing a…
The gorgeous language and fantastical premises Karen Russell (Orange World and Other Stories, Swamplandia!) employs are always animated by deep feeling and big ideas. The Antidote (only her second novel!), shares that depth and heft: It opens with the April 1935 “Black Sunday” dust storm enveloping the tiny town of Uz, Nebraska. Uz is home to a prairie witch, known as the Antidote, who possesses the ability to store memories that her neighbors would rather not retain themselves. But when the darkness and terror passes, the Antidote discovers that it has blown away all the memories she’d kept for the townspeople along with their topsoil. Russell unspools a story of holding on to community through hardship that’s also an investigation of what has been omitted from American memory, and how we could reclaim it.
The gorgeous language and fantastical premises Karen Russell (Orange World and Other Stories, Swamplandia!) employs are always animated by deep feeling and big ideas. The Antidote (only her second novel!), shares that depth and heft: It opens with the April 1935 “Black Sunday”…
Those who read Mona Awad’s funny, freaky Bunny and were left wondering “WTF just happened?!” will be thrilled to hear that Awad is granting us a follow-up. It’s unclear whether the action of We Love You, Bunny will take place before or after Samantha Heather Mackey and the Bunnies’ MFA cohort at Warren University, but for those who can’t get a copy of Bunny in time, the book purports to work as a standalone as well.
Those who read Mona Awad’s funny, freaky Bunny and were left wondering “WTF just happened?!” will be thrilled to hear that Awad is granting us a follow-up. It’s unclear whether the action of We Love You, Bunny will take place before or after Samantha…
The Dublin-born author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, for which he won the National Book Award, Colum McCann returns to his Irish roots in his eighth novel, Twist, which tells the story of Irish journalist Anthony Fennell’s reportage on the underwater fiber-optic cables that transfer the world’s host of digital information. Repairing these cables to maintain the flow of the vital data they carry requires fast action by engineer divers, one of whom Anthony forms a close connection with as he accompanies a cable repair ship on a mission off the west coast of Africa.
The Dublin-born author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, for which he won the National Book Award, Colum McCann returns to his Irish roots in his eighth novel, Twist, which tells the story of Irish journalist Anthony Fennell’s reportage on the…
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Afterlives) returns with his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Set at the turn of the 21st century in Tanzania, Theft follows Karim, Fauzia and Badar, three young people lacking support from their families attempting to make their lives in rapidly changing Zanzibar.
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Afterlives) returns with his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Set at the turn of the 21st century in Tanzania, Theft follows Karim, Fauzia and Badar, three young people lacking support from their families attempting to make…
Mỹ Documents takes place in a contemporary America where the government is forcing Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. High schooler Duncan and first year college student Jen are both detained with their mother, but their journalist half-sibling Ursula remains on the outside and begins reporting on their situation. The author of New Waves, Kevin Nguyen is a journalist, and he brings a sharp sense of journalistic ethics to this tale, which also reflects the U.S. government’s ongoing detention of immigrants and internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s.
Mỹ Documents takes place in a contemporary America where the government is forcing Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. High schooler Duncan and first year college student Jen are both detained with their mother, but their journalist half-sibling Ursula remains on the outside and begins reporting…
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, a story of power and perspective set at a 1980s performing arts high school, won the National Book Award in 2019 for the way it undid and upended narrative expectations. We have high hopes for Flashlight, and we know not to expect a straightforward structure. Beginning with a tragedy befalling a father and his 10-year-old daughter, the book branches out into different family members’ perspectives and peers into Korean, American and Japanese history.
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, a story of power and perspective set at a 1980s performing arts high school, won the National Book Award in 2019 for the way it undid and upended narrative expectations. We have high hopes for Flashlight, and we know not…
Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and all things space and astronomy will find themselves united in anticipation of the bestselling author’s upcoming release, Atmosphere: A Love Story. The Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising author’s latest complex protagonist is one of the first women to train with NASA in the 1980s. Of course, with space travel, the stakes are incredibly high, and she and her fellow candidates will be tested to the max in this suspenseful romantic drama.
Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and all things space and astronomy will find themselves united in anticipation of the bestselling author’s upcoming release, Atmosphere: A Love Story. The Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising…
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