Literary Fiction

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“portrays a woman of great intellect, beauty, and ability to read others, whose desire for power forms not for her own glory but to challenge a system that threatens her son’s life.”

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It’s impossible to discuss Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite without discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Told in an epistolary style from the perspective of the perpetrator

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“Most of the stories in Dublin Tales show off Irish literature at its best: overflowing with feeling, humor, and insight.

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“With Pelecanos’ longstanding care for the humanity, even among the most desperate and downtrodden, Owning Up is about the ripple effects and long-term ramifications of crime or tr

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“Author Hisashi Kashiwai is able to craft beautiful, heartfelt stories for his characters . . .”

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“If you want plot, read James Patterson. If you want to think, this is the book for you.”

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“Part love story, part adventure, and part mystery, The Fox Wife is an enjoyable excursion into the beliefs and life in the China of 120 years ago.”

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Ways and Means is an amazing debut novel from a prodigiously gifted young writer. . . . virtuosic storytelling.”

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“Wherever he takes you—to the steamy summers of the Deep South, to dingy bars and squalid dwellings, or to fragrant cherry orchards by a lake near Bigfork—Burke makes everything come to lif

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a wonderful love story, an engaging mystery expertly written and told, about loss and love . . .”

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Bekono captures Salomé’s narrative voice.

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For the history lesson alone, Cold Victory is memorable.”

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“the plot of Blizzard is compulsive enough to carry it through to the end. The age-old question of what happens next compels the turning of the page.”

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“weaves all these stories and characters into a tapestry of believability that is well-crafted, suspenseful, and satisfying.”

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“Maybe Antarctica could teach us all not to surrender to despair, to keep investing in a world of and beyond ourselves.”

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“As always, Matar’s writing is elegant and metaphorically rich, filled with carefully drawn portraits of Khaled and his intelligent, highly articulate friends and dramatic renderings of the

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The Derelict Light, environmental journalist Mike Stark’s first novel, is a character study of Astoria, Oregon, a small, dreary town on the Columbia River just miles from the Pacific Ocean

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“Quite simply it is dazzling.”

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“Louise Kennedy’s brass tack writing takes center stage in each of her haunting short stories.

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“singular Paul Lynch, the prophet raging at the wickedness and sorrow in the world, warning us that the road to redemption travels through compassion and love, but it surely is not an easy

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Can a woman of 60 just be coming of age?

Better late than never.

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Many succumbed to the mesmerizing prose of Paul Auster 40 years ago when he was writing about his emotionally distant father. Auster was then only 35.

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“above all, The Vulnerables, like many of Sigrid Nunez’s other exceptional writings, is about what it means to be human.”

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“Amanda Peters writes with beautiful simplicity. What a joy to read fiction that isn’t cluttered with unnecessary twists and turns and verbiage.”

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this compelling novel explores important themes such as colonialism, friendship, religion, and the meaning of ‘doing good.’”

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