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The leaves are dropping, anxieties are spiking, and at the center of everything is a warbling uncertainty.
Enjoy a delicious set of new realities to wrap yourself in like an itinerant quilt.
Enmeshed in this rather chain-linked lifestyle is 21-year-old protagonist Isa Epley, a self-proclaimed expert at coming and going.
Beside her, amid a slew of tagalongs, is her bestie, Gala Novak.
Written in journal entries, from May through September of 2013, the narrator is sardonic and necessarily unreliable.
The superficial lightness of Granadoss spare plot resists an undercurrent of darkness.
Why else would Isa fill her every spare moment with the company of all these duds?
Tiana Reid
The medieval nun drama you didnt know you needed.
Can you think of a more depleted, imprecise, or weaponized word?
Throughout, her sensitivity and emotional presence soften the hyperintellectual, almost academic quality of her writing.
She leads with feeling, exploring what she calls the joys and pains of our inescapable relation.
All her trademarks are present: hostile loneliness, inexplicable depression, white guilt, self-assured education.
Now open your eyes.
Tope Folarin
Few economists go viral as often as Adam Tooze does.
A translator and poet, she uses them sparsely, delicately, aware that each one carries unseen weight.
These stories are immaculate, beautiful, tattered like their characters.
In her cogitations, the ordinariness of loss bristles up against times unyielding forward momentum.
91/92redoubles the questions around intimacy and proximity that have always and will ever continue to plague us.
Can he somehow be both and still maintain his family and reputation?
(This book would also pair well with Alexandra Kleemans recent novelSomething New Under the Sun.)
I am still full of her passion.
He can also be difficult, even hostile, and is at risk of being expelled from school.
Is it an unexpected astronomical event or a sign from the heavens?
If he lives up to his own reputation, Ill send a flare up to the stratosphere myself.
The condition of crisis that Chancy evokes, simultaneously unimaginable and everyday, resonates as loudly as ever.
But the scope of this novel feels somehow even more monumental.
Higgie has organized the book thematically (Easel, Smile, etc.)
Is it a form of cultural identification?
All of the above?
An essential document from an inimitable critic.
Kevin Lozano
This autobiographical-ish novel by our most significant rising writer of the American West is a wild ride.
own story of months spent running away from her life as a mother, writer, and teacher.
Its career-redefining and absolutely bonkers in all the best ways.
Mik Awake
The part of life/devoted to contemplation/was at odds with the part/committed to action.
(The Tejano pop stars posthumous fifth and final album is also titledDreaming of You.)
(Any of this sound familiar?)
Cornelia Channing
In Erdrichs latest, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis becomes the site of a yearlong haunting.
Similar to Okorafors work in her renownedBintiseries,Noorfollows a young woman on a fated journey.
Mary Retta
It takes an expert to play with the short-story form like this.
Wideman is known for chaotically blurring the lines between historical event and personal memory in novels like 1990sPhiladelphia Fire.
Curiosity is the rock upon which fiction is built.
Curiosity is a guiding principle once again inThese Precious Days, this time in service of nonfiction.
In Patchetts hands, each subject becomes a springboard for thoughtful digression.
Cornelia Channing
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