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New & Notable Fiction May 2023 |
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The covenant of water : a novel by Abraham Verghese (Release date 5/2)The long-awaited follow-up to Verghese's bestselling sensation Cutting for Stone. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set on South India's Malabar Coast, this novel is an epic of love, faith and medicine following three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece by Tom Hanks (Release date 5/9)The Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author presents his first novel! Tom Hanks tells the story of the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film based on a series of comic books that depict the changes in America and American culture since WWII.
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Yellowface : a novel by R. F. Kuang (Release date 5/16)After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work. But as emerging evidence of the plagiarism threatens her success, she discovers just how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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The ferryman : a novel by Justin Cronin (Release date 5/2)A ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it—Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father in the new novel from the author of The Passage trilogy.
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The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren (Release date 5/16)A bestselling romance novelist who doesn't practice what she preaches, Felicity “Fizzy” Chen agrees to star in a reality TV show to find her perfect match -- if documentary filmmaker and single father Connor Prince meets her list of demands -- and soon realizes her happily-ever-after may be behind the camera.
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The guest : a novel by Emma Cline (Release date 5/16)A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the bestselling author of The Girls. Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome after a misstep at a dinner party. But gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her...
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The late Americans by Brandon Taylor (Release date 5/23)During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends, as each prepares for an uncertain future, head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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Longtime bartender Malcolm Gephardt realizes his dream of owning a bar, while his wife Jess, a lawyer struggling with fertility issues, wonders how to reshape her life. A novel told over the course of one tumultuous week, laying bare the complexities of marriage, family, longing and desire.
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Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins (Release date 5/16)When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Eighteen months later, Foster will be expelled, following a tragic scandal that leaves Kennedy and its students irreparably changed. Through interviews with former classmates, Foster's blog posts, playlists, and text archives, and the narrator's own obsessive imagination, a story unfurls -- Foster's, yes, but also one that asks us who owns our personal narratives, and how we shape ourselves to be the heroes or villains of our own stories.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Release date 5/2)Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system in this anticipated debut novel, a "Read With Jenna" Today Show pick. CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, is a highly popular, highly controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates.
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Gone to the wolves by John Wray (Release date 5/2)A trio of friends, outlier metalheads in a conservative Florida town in the 1980s, make a pilgrimage to L.A.'s Sunset Strip in search of a better life... and face a shocking truth after one of them disappears.
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Bad summer people by Emma Rosenblum (Release date 5/23)Jen and Lauren rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other. Until a body is discovered, face down, off the side of the boardwalk. Stylish, subversive, and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.
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