Rebecca Kauffman’s thoughtful portrayal of family relationships in all their tension and secrets as well as intimacy and wonder in I’ll Come to You resembles the introspective style of authors like Ethan Joella or Ann Napolitano.
The author of Mr. Peanut makes his long-awaited return to fiction in this coming-of-age story starring a young actor in 1980s New York City.
Zora Neale Hurston’s familiarity with the political and spiritual workings of the Roman Empire makes The Life of Herod the Great a thought-provoking read, particularly in her depiction of Herod’s visits to Cleopatra, Marc Antony and Caesar.
We can never resist a book within a book, and Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, She Who Knows) has pulled one off brilliantly here: Though Death of the Author begins as the near-future story of a Nigerian American writer’s rise to fame, embedded within it is a sci-fi tale about a robot and AI-ruled Earth. This clever expansion beyond her usual hard sci-fi and fantasy will surely introduce the highly lauded Africanfuturist author to legions of new fans.
Wistful and wise, Jill McCorkle’s fifth collection is the work of a writer at the top of her game.
Claire Keegan’s writing is spare but never austere, and the hour spent in Foster’s quiet world will change you.
It’s truly a wonder that Denis Johnson’s engrossing Train Dreams can fit so much vibrancy within so few pages.
Karissa Chen’s Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story, capturing the ever-present yearning for “people, people who shared the same ghosts as you, of folks long gone, places long disappeared.”
Woo Woo tells the story of self-obsessed conceptual artist Sabine Rossi’s brush with a stalker, while deftly sending up that subtype of conceptual art that is, as one critic writes of Sabine’s work, “contrived, boring, and egotistical.”
Niall Williams demonstrates his genius for making you laugh out loud while breaking your heart at the same time in Time of the Child, his follow-up to This Is Happiness.
Sacha Naspini’s The Bishop’s Villa is a gut-wrenching story of survival set in Grosseto, a Catholic diocese in Tuscany which was rented out by its bishop as a prison camp during the Holocaust.
Weike Wang’s excellent dialogue, especially in scenes with in-laws, will make you laugh out loud as her third novel, Rental House, examines what grown children and aging parents owe one another.
Juhea Kim’s City of Night Birds reverently celebrates dance, describing ballet technique, culture and history so vividly that they will quickly become meaningful to an unfamiliar reader.
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