Fiction

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In Searching for Wallenberg author Alan Lelchuk chooses to work in the well-worn structure of a novel within a novel.

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“Those were certainly the good old days.”

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A Kitchen in France gives a cook a reason to get back into the kitchen . . .”

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“a beautifully written story that takes some effort to buy into. If you can flow with its subtle pace, then a satisfying read follows . . .”

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“the story succeeds on so many levels—characterization, descriptive narrative, an exciting plot—that one is enthralled . . .”

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“a complex novel of impeccable pace, editing, and scene direction . . . compelling and potboilingly readable, a thriller-manqué.”

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“Everyone is suspect.”

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“a slow plodding ride down a comfortable track. . . . it could have been much more.”

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a very fun read from beginning to end . . . never lags . . . extremely inventive . . . playful . . .”

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They can pretend to be worms, butterflies, snails, and any other creature that captures their imaginations.”

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Times have changed in the quarter century since Lesléa Newman first published Heather Has Two Mommies. Twenty-five years ago Newman could not find a publisher for the book.

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“sharp and in perfect pitch. Overall, Oates exhibits extremely fine authorial control, showing her puppet-master’s strings only when she wants.”

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Harlan Coben is the bestselling author of 16 previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Long Lost and Hold Tight. He is the winner of the Edgar Award, t

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Author Joakim Zander’s writing style in The Swimmer is difficult to describe.

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“Conor Brady’s debut novel is a slice of history about Dublin, Ireland, and the Dublin Metropolitan police, intertwined with a first-rate murder mystery . . .”

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The Golden Age pulp magazine Weird Tales wasn’t a pulp that featured cowboys or detectives or men with rocket-packs on its covers. It had odd, scary things on its covers.

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Early in this novel, when Poxl West—the putative author of this supposed World War II memoir—is giving a book reading, an audience member asks, “Mr.

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“Khadra’s didacticism ruins this book and leaves the novel bereft of his previously demonstrated literary power.”

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Darlene Hardison once led a happy life. She married Nat, the man she loved since college and they owned Mount Hope Grocery, a local general store in tiny segregated town of Orvis, Louisiana.

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In this enticing historical novel about the French designer Coco Chanel, Edith Piaf meets Maria Duenas’s heroine in the well-received and compelling 2014 novel, The Time In Between.

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It’s worth noting that Cambodia Noir is not one of the “noir” short story anthologies from Akashic Books (Prison Noir, New Orleans Noir, Twin Cities Noir, etc).

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“an old story of injustice brought creatively to new life by an award-winning writer.”

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“a short, funny and rather disturbing novel . . .”

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“recommended to readers who enjoy interior prose and psychological literary fiction.”

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“amazing . . . original and experimental . . .”

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