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Editors’ Picks: Fiction & Literature

A mother’s love…
Moral codes, maternal instincts, and a young couple’s marriage are put to the test when a boat carrying a dead man, and a very alive baby girl, washes onto the shore of a remote Australian island.
An expat's ennui…
A novel of dispassionate decadence, Hemingway’s roman à clef portrays a sense of ennui that is as relevant today as it was in the Roaring Twenties.
A treasure trove…
Discover a treasure trove of unimagined possibilities, to be revisited time & time again, inside each story in Fountain’s debut collection.
An extraordinary debut…
This “New York Times�? bestselling debut is an engrossing, skillfully layered coming-of-age story, where the everyday becomes extraordinary.
Hilarious & heartfelt…
Maria Semple’s modern epistolary novel is hilarious and heartfelt, following 15-year-old Bee as she tries to solve the apparent mental breakdown and disappearance of her mother just before a family trip to Antarctica.
Graceful, affecting debut…
One errant throw from a shortstop phenomenon sends five lives spinning in new directions in this affecting debut. With a grace rarely seen even in seasoned writers, Harbach teases out the true art & beauty of baseball.
Pulsing with life…
A dazzling collection of stories about identity and relationships from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. As in “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao�?, Díaz’s prose here is bawdy, colorful, and pulsing with life.
Classic Murakami...
Balanced between his tendencies towards the minimal & the mystical, “Colorless�? is classic Murakami: a quietly oneiric mediation on intimacy, solitude, memory & belonging.
Stories that linger...
Lahiri is a sensitive observer of the micro relationships that form between strangers in different situations: a tour, a dinner party, a tutoring session. These are stories that linger, that become a part of you.
Emotionally gripping…
This stunning story of a precocious nine-year old boy, who struggles with issues of loss and family, captured the attention of a nation grappling with the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11.

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Ambitious & engrossing…

Well written & compulsively readable, “Homegoing�? is also illuminating; the novel makes clear that as far as our country has come, the roots of racism that built it go deeper still. An ambitious and engrossing debut novel.

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A lovely disruption…

The rigid life of an uptight woman in her 40s gets interrupted by romantic fantasies and a young houseguest. What follows is an intriguing look into sexuality, human interaction, and what it means to love and be loved.