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Black Cloud Rising
by David Wright FaladéAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were…
True North
by Jim Harrison“Harrison consistently commands our attention for his humanity and his tenderness. That he can create such tension in the process—a tension not released until the last page—and in the end…
The School on Heart’s Content Road
by Carolyn Chute…beautiful novel. . . . [The School on Heart’s Content Road is] a love song to a part of America that doesn’t have much of a voice, and is armed….
Lost Nation
by Jeffrey Lent“Lent is a skillful and confident storyteller, evoking the seasons, the dampness of the bogs and the muck and the madness that sometimes affects those living alone in the dark…
A Girl Could Stand Up
by Leslie Marshall“Elray Mayhew is one of the truly original literary heroines of the past few decades. . . . A Girl Could Stand Up is the kind of novel that one…
Father of the Rain
by Lily KingAward-winning author Lily King’s new novel spans three decades in a riveting psychological portrait of a wildly charismatic patriarch as seen through the eyes of his daughter….
Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier“Rich, dense, star-spangled . . . The novels of Robert Stone come to mind, and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and Kobo Abe’s The Ruined Map,…
Blueprints of the Afterlife
by Ryan BoudinotAn audacious, hilarious, and compelling novel of future shock, overconsumption, social control, and human nature by Ryan Boudinot, whom Dave Eggers has called “Some kind of new and dangerous cross…
A Spell of Winter
by Helen Dunmore…smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even happened. . . . [A] Gothic wonder of a novel.” –Salon…
The Hole We’re In
by Gabrielle ZevinFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a bold, timeless novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America…
