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The comparisons tossed around for Emily Temples debut could hardly be more tantalizing.
Chloe Benjamin called it the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French.
Others have compared Temple to Ottessa Moshfegh and Emma Cline.
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If youre a fan of Sally Rooney novels, try Andrew MartinsEarly Work.
Martins follow-up is a collection for short stories that explores the search for transcendence through art.
TheCrazy Rich Asianauthors latest is an homage to E.M. ForstersRoom With a View.
It follows Lucie Churchill, a half-Chinese woman amidst an identity crisis.
Either way, itll be a publishing event and will most likely suck you right in.
Shes only very slightly exaggerating.
Imagine this: A child appears in your small towns church.
Its gender identity and sex are unclear.
Its skin offers only the barest hints about its race.
And it refuses to, or cannot, speak a word.
But the longer Pew stays, the more the towns ancient grudges break to new mutiny.
For all the Freaky Friday-ing that happens in the book,Crossingsdoesnt descend into silliness.
It deftly tackles both the big and small mysteries of life including in which order one should read it.
Yiyun Li is primed for a breakout.
But Lilias copious annotations to the diary allow her to be the heroine of her own story.
For all its heavy subject matter,Memorial Driveis crystalline.
The writing is spare but always lands a direct hit.
Youll read it in an afternoon but think about it for decades to follow.
What stands out here is Leilanis prose (I think to myself,You are a desirable woman.
You are not a dozen gerbils in a skin casing.
We had a lot of fun, didnt we?
Sounds nice right now!
Theres a chapter on pandemics, and yes, it is chilling.
Details are slim about the plot of Smiths Seasonal Quartet finale.
As of this writing, her final manuscript isnt even into her publishers.
Theyve all rejiggered the space-time continuum inside the contemporary novel and called for a new kind of storytelling.
A novel about family facing their darkest impulses while quarantined together?
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