Riverhead Books
Edith Holler
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This fascinating, dreamlike novel is hard to categorize. Set in 1901 Norwich, England, this penny-dreadful-inspired tale of haunted theaters, murderous stepmothers, cannibalism, ghosts, and ...Read Review
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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Chicken Hill, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The 1930s. The world of Moshe and Chona Ludlow. Moshe is a Jewish immigrant, a theater owner and entrepreneur. ...Read Review
The Vaster Wilds
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This devastatingly beautiful meditation on nature, divinity, and survival is the second volume of a planned triptych begun last year with Groff’s ...Read Review
The Great Reclamation
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1941, Singapore: As British imperialism declines and WWII looms, seven-year-old Ah Boon and the Lee family struggle to survive in their southeastern coastal fishing ...Read Review
Ada’s Realm (UK) / Ada’s Room (US)
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This is one of those novels which may be termed experimental, in that the non-linear plot is challenging to describe in a pithy ...Read Review
Afterlives
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Afterlives provides a view of the culture and world of early-20th-century Eastern Africa. Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian author, won the 2021 Nobel Prize ...Read Review
Trust
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Pulitzer finalist Diaz’s brilliantly layered epic unfolds through a quartet of accounts, each of which adds new meaning to the ones that ...Read Review
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
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Unreliable narrators are a tricky device. In The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, the protagonist, Elle Ranier, tells her story of moving from ...Read Review
When We Lost Our Heads
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In late 19th-century Montreal, girls and women are filled with rage in Heather O’Neill’s When We Lost Our Heads. The story ...Read Review
The Books of Jacob
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In mid-18th century Poland, a messianic figure emerges in a small Jewish community. It says something about this book that this character ...Read Review
