Robert – Subdivision (2021) funhouse of a novel built on the surprises a young woman embraces while visiting a magical town Leilani, Raven – Luster (2020) cutting, waggish debut about a young Black woman who moves in with her suburban white male lover, his wife and their adopted Black daughter National Book Award winning second novel first-person autobiographical vignettes from Polish American author best known for The Painted Bird and Being There Kehlmann, Daniel – Fame (2009) nine cleverly interconnected stories about celebrity, identity and mortality from the Austrian star Kafka, Franz – The Castle (1926) unfinished last novel spoofing the vagaries of authority, bureaucracy and small-town life Johnson, Denis – The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (stories) (2018) lauded posthumous collection from National Book Award winner (Tree of Smoke)
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Brodesser-Akner, Taffy – Fleischman Is In Trouble (2019) debut comic romp through marital strife ambiguity, online dating, parental tribulations and Upper East Side class tension, with a rare disease subplotīrown, Larry – Dirty Work (1989) lyrical and heart-wrenching 48 hours with two Vietnam vets in a VA hospital, the acclaimed late Southern writer’s first novelĬain, James M.
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