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Friday Fiction April April 19, 2019 |
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Biloxi : A Novel
by Mary Miller
May 21, 2019
Mary Miller seizes the mantle of Southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.
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Cheer up, Mr. Widdicombe : A Novel
by Evan James
An eccentric family in the Pacific Northwest experience dramas involving their son, who is nursing a broken heart after a trip abroad; their personal assistant, who begins dating a screenwriter; and a gardener who falls for a self-help author.
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Diary of a Murderer : and Other Stories
by Young-ha Kim
An electric collection that captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge--between life and death, good and evil."
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Good Riddance
by Elinor Lipman
Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.
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The Girl He Used to Know
by Tracey Garvis Graves
A tumultuous but tender love affair between a socially awkward chess club member and a courageous, quirky girl is shattered by an unforeseen tragedy that forces them to confront respective anxieties when they reunite a decade later.
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
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The Last Romantics : A Novel
by Tara Conklin
Renowned poet Fiona Skinner tells the inspiration behind her iconic work, a decades long story of her family after her father dies suddenly.
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Normal People : A Novel
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.
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The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell
Three generations of a cursed family traverse from India and Italy to England and ultimately a fantastical Zambia of the near future, where an interstitial Greek chorus of mosquitoes traces their vibrant human experiences as children, parents and grandparents.
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Orange World and Other Stories
by Karen Russell
A latest collection of short fiction by the award-winning author of Swamplandia! includes the title story, in which a desperate new mother strikes a bargain to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection over her baby.
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The Parisian, or, Al-Barisi : A Novel
by Isabella Hammad
Studying medicine and falling in love in 1914 France, the son of a wealthy Palestinian textile merchant finds his loyalties tested by conflicts between the British government and the independence-minded nationalists of his community.
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Trust Exercise : A Novel
by Susan Choi
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives
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The Wall : A Novel
by John Lanchester
When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
by Robert Hillman
A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
by Louis Bayard
Reimagines the early adulthood of a future 16th President from the alternating views of the two people who knew and loved him best, including spirited debutante Mary Todd and Lincoln's intimate confidante, Joshua Speed.
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The Editor : A Novel
by Steven Rowley
A struggling writer in 1990s New York City gets his big break from none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green
by Erica Boyce
Daniel travels through America's countryside, creating astonishing crop circles that leave communities mystified. But when a dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a community struggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years. For fans of Phaedra Patrick and Fredrick Backman, this astonishing debut explores the healing power of forgiveness, the quirky definition of family, and the realization that home is not the walls you build but the people you choose to build them with.
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In the Neighborhood of True
by Susan Kaplan Carlton
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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Lights All Night Long : A Novel
by Lydia Fitzpatrick
With the help of his American host family's daughter, Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Russian exchange student Ilya embarks on a mission to prove his brother Vladimir’s innocence in the murders of three girls back in Russia.
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Lost roses : A Novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
Based on true events, a tale set a generation before Lilac Girls traces the stories of three women, including Caroline Ferriday's mother, a Romanov cousin and a fortune-teller's daughter, against a backdrop of the Russian revolution and World War I.
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The Magnetic Girl
by Jessica Handler
A girl in post-Civil War rural Georgia discovers that by harnessing the power of electricity she can control the thoughts and actions of others and sets out on a quest to use this power to heal her disabled baby brother.
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Naamah : A Novel
by Sarah Blake
Revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth, and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. Naamah is a parable for our time: a fable of body, spirit, and resilience
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Notes From a Young Black Chef : A Memoir
by Kwame Onwuachi
This is an astonishing and open-hearted story from one of the next generation’s stars of the culinary world. I am so excited to see what the future holds for Chef Kwame—he is a phoenix, rising into better and better things and showing us all what it means to be humble, hungry, and daring
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
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