Literary
Jack: A Novel
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A very few novelists create worlds—palpable, mappable, 3-D, unique as a scent. Marilynne Robinson’s fictional Gilead, Iowa, is such a world, ...Read Review
A Single Swallow
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On the day the Japanese emperor announces his nation’s surrender to the Allied forces, three quite different men, in the unbridled exaltation ...Read Review
The Pull of the Stars
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This novel is set in Dublin during the Halloween of 1918. Nurse Julia Power finds herself solely in charge of a temporary ward in ...Read Review
We Germans: A Novel
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This novella comprises a long letter written by a German grandfather, Meissner, to his Scottish grandson, Callum. On a visit, seventeen months in ...Read Review
Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel
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With her first novel, Asha Lemmie proves herself a talented writer unafraid to take chances. Her heroine’s situation is unique, and her ...Read Review
The Turncoat: A Novel
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1945. In a deadly primeval jungle, on the border to Byelorussia and Ukraine, at the farthest reaches of Eastern Europe, Walter Proska, a young ...Read Review
American Gospel: A Novel
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In American Gospel, the biblically named Enoch has a near-death experience and a vision of the Rapture, an event in which Christians believe ...Read Review
The Piano Student
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In Lea Singer’s biographical novel, The Piano Student, an elderly man, Nico Kaufmann, brings a younger man on a guided tour of ...Read Review
The Electric Hotel
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The Electric Hotel is a story within a story, with the main narrative set within a poignant outer frame. It is 1963, and a ...Read Review
Fourth Island
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Historical FantasyLiteraryMystery/Crime
A corpse washes up on the shore of Inis Mór, one of the three Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. ...Read Review