In T. J. Martinson’s forthcoming novel, Her New Eyes, an experimental eye transplant with unexpected side effects upends the life of a sixty-eight-year-old florist living in modern-day Indiana. Soon after the procedure, the protagonist, Susan, begins receiving sporadic visions…
Stella Lei, Inheritances of Hunger “This is not your average family drama. In five raw, gutting stories, Lei pulls us into a post-apocalyptic girlhood where bloodline means blood spilled, where childhood games have chilling conclusions, where mothers give daughters voice…
Madeline Anthes, Now We Haunt This Home Together “Missing girls. Bad men. Houses haunted by memories and loss and sometimes actual ghosts. In Now We Haunt This Home Together, Madeline Anthes writes what it is to be a woman in…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair Knopf From The Guardian: “Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Ramona Ausubel, Awayland Riverhead From Kirkus Reviews: “Eleven stories laced with humorous developments, mythic tendencies, and magical realist premises. Ausubel (Sons…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Amy Bloom, White Houses Penguin Random House From Kirkus Reviews: “From the prolific Bloom, whose novels and short stories have often…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Will Boast, Daphne Liveright/Norton From Kirkus Reviews: “Boast (Epilogue, 2014, etc.) writes about Daphne, who isolates herself from most other people…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Eileen Chang, Little Reunions NYRB Classics From Publishers Weekly: “Originally completed in 1976 and appearing in English for the first time, this…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists Penguin Random House From Publishers Weekly: “In her second novel, Benjamin (The Anatomy of Dreams) constructs an imaginative…
Here’s a quick look at some of the great books out this week. Happy pub day to all! Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery Graywolf Press From Publishers Weekly: “In the 14th volume of Graywolf’s The Art Of series, novelist…
