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Tag: Literary Fiction
‘An Oral History of Atlantis’ by Ed Park
Park’s delightful tales, which are driven by provocative ideas, strange occurrences, and gripping plots, pay tribute to the legacy of Kurt Vonnegut in the best ways. This pitch-perfect collection will linger in readers’ minds for a long time. Read more
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‘Vera, or Faith’ by Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today, and like all the great ones, his humor elucidates as much as it amuses. That’s especially true of Vera, or Faith, a richly imagined tale of a unique family in an America that is succumbing all too willingly to technology’s intrusions and the threat of oppression. Read more
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‘Fair Play’ by Louise Hegarty
Readers of both classic mysteries and literary fiction will enjoy this intermingling of the two in Louise Hegarty’s first novel, Fair Play, an utterly fresh approach to the standard whodunit that adds emotional heft to playful pastiche … Hegerty skillfully manipulates the genre, calling attention to the reader’s expectations and subverting familiar tropes in the service of nuanced storytelling. Fair Play is a thoroughly satisfying and thought-provoking read. Read more
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Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
Ichikawa’s provocative debut chronicles a disabled woman’s sexual awakening. Shaka, a Japanese woman who lives with myotubular myopathy, a genetic disease whose symptoms include difficulty breathing and muscle weakness, is independently wealthy thanks to an inheritance from her parents. She spends her days taking online university courses and writing pornographic stories for money, which she sends to food banks and shelters for homeless young girls. Read more
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‘Mothers and Sons’ by Adam Haslett
This deeply satisfying novel is a revelation—a thoughtful, psychologically acute, beautifully written examination of intersecting lives. The characters come alive on the page, commanding readers’ attention. This novel is sure to receive accolades, and it richly deserves them. Read more
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The Novel About U.S. Politics So Outrageous It Nearly Wasn’t Published
Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece. Read more
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‘State of Paradise’ by Laura van den Berg
With exquisite prose, smart lines on every page, a building sense of growing strangeness tinged with dread, and surprises all the way to the end, State of Paradise might be van den Berg’s best novel so far — and that’s saying a lot. A narrative that constantly feels like its dancing on the border between fiction and nonfiction despite all the weirdness it contains, this book is at once an adventure and a treat, a deep study of Florida’s psychogeography and a creepy story about ghosts, missing people, cults, and technology. Don’t miss it. Read more
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‘Bear’ by Julia Phillips
In the beautiful and haunting latest from Phillips (Disappearing Earth), two 20-something sisters contend with economic precarity and their mother’s terminal illness on present-day San Juan Island, Wash. Read more
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Caleb Azumah Nelson Wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘Small Worlds’
British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for his second novel Small Worlds, which judges described as “symphonic” and “viscerally moving”. Read more
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