Belinda Huijuan Tang’s splendid debut novel follows a Chinese American son through a purgatory of twists and turns, red herrings and dead ends, in the search for his missing father.
Whether you care about video games or not is beside the point. Gabrielle Zevin‘s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the novel you‘ve been waiting to read.
Monique Roffey‘s The Mermaid of Black Conch, winner of the 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award, is a gripping dark fairy tale that any fan of contemporary fantasy will happily swim through.
A nonlinear novel focused on the transient nature of life could have been depressing, but Andrew Holleran‘s thoughtful, poetic treatment makes The Kingdom of Sand one of the most beautiful novels of the year.
With Horse, Geraldine Brooks returns to themes she explored so well in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March.
A singer-songwriter faces questions of fame and fertility in Elisa Albert‘s novel Human Blues, an emotional, life-affirming howl into a wild world.
Reading Alice Elliott Dark‘s second novel is a transportive experience, similar to spending several long, luxurious summers on the shores of a picturesque Maine peninsula.
With haunting prose and deeply atmospheric descriptions, Conner Habib‘s Hawk Mountain is a disturbing descent into the convulsions of the human mind and heart.
In Yerba Buena, her first novel for adult readers, Nina LaCour captures all the aches and hurts and betrayals and sensual delights of being in your 20s.
Katie Guierrez’s debut novel, More Than You’ll Ever Know, burrows straight to the heart of our true crime fixation through an intense emotional dance between two seemingly different women.
Selin, hero of Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, returns with a voice that is more mature, reflective and droll as she starts to move out of her novels and into her own self.
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