Literary Fiction

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Spoonbenders is a ripe peach. Something you yearn for.

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“a poignant work and a must-read this summer.”

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“a positive and highly successful attempt at helping readers grasp the enormity of the refugee problem . . . by pinpointing one individual’s struggles.”

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Novelists are not immune to what’s going on around them and clearly author Brian Platzer, who lives in the largely black and gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, has drawn on hi

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“a remarkable achievement . . . a story of commitment, identity, and familial loyalty that will leave one in tears. Five out of five stars.”

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“The most fascinating facet of Connolly’s series is his skill in combining the supernatural and noir to create a story that has a feel of realism . . .”

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“Border Child is a satisfying book on an important topic . . .”

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Katie Kitamura’s A Separation begins with a young woman embarking on a trip to Greece.

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“The Essex Serpent is a masterpiece of a novel . . . Sarah Perry has written a multifaceted novel with universal appeal.”

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Nothing is quite like the bond of true friendship, and no one realizes this more than Anna as she fights another battle with dreaded cancer which has returned yet again.

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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is the sweet, cute, and deceptively simple story of Jomny, an alien who doesn't fit in with his own people, who is sent to earth with the mission o

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". . . a beautifully written novel."

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“The stories in the volume are all worthy—some extraordinary.”

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Some espionage writers follow the same character from one book to the next— John Le Carré’s George Smiley, for instance.

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Haruki Murakami is an author who has never been easy to categorize.

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Fans of Japanese literature may notice some similarities between the work of Hiromi Kawakami and that of Banana Yoshimoto, the latter of whom rose to worldwide fame in the early 1990s with the tran

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“a talented new voice in contemporary Nigerian literature.”

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“an enjoyable feast of nostalgia coupled with the poignant joi de vivre of the teenaged male.”

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Jordan Harper’s fast-paced debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, opens with a disturbingly haunting introduction to “Crazy” Craig Hollington, the leader of a gang known as Aryan Steel.

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Tomoyuki Hoshino, born 1965, is one of Japan’s more compelling younger writers, but he remains virtually unknown abroad.

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Somewhere after every NFL Super Bowl one will find many die-hard fans weeping for the team that lost, so it is with presidential elections.

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Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan tells the story of Andy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, who, upon visiting a carnival with his parents, enters the hall of mirrors where he becomes tr

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Nobody does Kafkaesque quite like Franz Kafka.

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“like a sonnet whose beautiful lines are undermined by its flawed argument.”

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"The book is a smorgasbord of rich delights."

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