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Fiction A to Z February 2020
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| Followers by Megan AngeloWhat happens: Two storylines unfold, one set in 2016, and one in 2051. Separating the two is a catastrophic data hack.
Why you might like it: Exploring the pitfalls of social media, this debut novel takes contemporary interest in celebrity culture to its logical extreme.
For fans of: Dave Eggers' The Circle; Courtney Maum's Touch, or Connie Willis' Crosstalk -- all of which touch on different aspects of the trouble with technology and social media. |
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Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano
A 12-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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Creatures
by Crissy Van Meter
A bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother.
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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Cleanness
by Garth Greenwell
Set in Sofia, Bulgaria—a landlocked city in Southern Europe—an American teacher grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad as he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home.
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Little Gods
by Meng Jin
A first novel explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.
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Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins
by Katarina Bivald
The best-selling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend presents the story of a ghost who would help her friends heal and move on by reconnecting them with memories from their senior year of high school.
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