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Fiction A to Z January 2020
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
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All That's Bright and Gone
by Eliza Nellums
Unable to get answers from her traumatized family in the aftermath of her older brother’s murder, a precocious 6-year-old teams up with a nosy neighbor to uncover painful secrets on the rooftops of Detroit.
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Watershed
by Mark Barr
In 1937 rural Tennessee, a small-town housewife, finding her place in the post-Depression South, struggles to balance motherhood and a new-found freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she never knew she possessed.
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The Sacrament
by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child, now a grown man, haunted by the past, calls the nun back to the scene of the crime.
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The Beadworkers
by Beth H. Piatote
This brilliant debut collection of stories, set in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, draws on indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life in the Americas.
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The Book of Science and Antiquities
by Thomas Keneally
Obsessively researching prehistoric remains believed to represent a link between Africa and ancient Australia, an award-winning documentary filmmaker uncovers the complex world of a peaceful, 40,000-year-old tribal human. By the award-winning author of Schindler’s List.
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Regretting You
by Colleen Hoover
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of It Ends With Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife
by Karma Brown
In a dual-narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife, causing her to question the foundation of her relationship with her husband.
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