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Poets in Fiction April 2021 |
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When the plums are ripe
by Alain Patrice Nganang
A follow-up to Mount Pleasant is inspired by the history of World War II Cameroon, where the poet Pouka observes a generation of young men forced to become soldiers in a globe-spanning conflict they do not fully understand. Maps.
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New people
by Danzy Senna
Working on her dissertation while planning her wedding to her college sweetheart, Maria, a young woman from Brooklyn being featured in a documentary about mixed-heritage couples, risks the life she has worked so hard to achieve by fantasizing about a poet she barely knows
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The gone dead : a novel
by Chanelle Benz
Returning to her ramshackle home in the Mississippi Delta after 30 years, Billie investigates the accident that killed her famous poet father as well as rumors that she went missing the day he died. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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Paris, 7 a. m.
by Liza Wieland
"June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they were expected to find an impressive husband, a quiet life, and act accordingly. But the world is changing, and as they explore the City of Light, the larger threats of fascism and occupation are looming. There, they meet a community of upper-crust expatriates who not only bring them along on a life-changing adventure, but also into an underground world of rebellion that will quietly alter the course of Elizabeth's life forever."
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The shadow land : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Accidentally taking a parcel from a family with whom she shared a cab, a young American tourist in Bulgaria is horrified to discover that the parcel contains an urn of ashes and embarks on an effort to return it to its family, making astonishing discoveries along the way. By the award-winning author of The Historian.
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Pies before guys
by Kirsten Weiss
When a poetry reading at her bakery ends in murder, Pie Town proprietor Val Harris finds herself at the center of another criminal inquiry and must sift through the clues to catch a killer before her reputation crumbles. Original.
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On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam war on their family
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The revolution of Marina M.
by Janet Fitch
A young woman of privilege coming of age in 1916 St. Petersburg finds her life and ambitions violently upended by historical events that find her joining the cause for workers' rights, falling in love with a radical poet and navigating devastating betrayals. By the best-selling author of White Oleander. 100,000 first printing.
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The Dante chamber
by Matthew Pearl
Poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson team up to decode literary clues after a murder victim is discovered in a London park with a verse from the Divine Comedy around his neck, in a follow up to The Dante Club
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Ayesha at last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher who would avoid an arranged marriage setting aside her literary ambitions before falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé. Original
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A lush and seething hell : two tales of cosmic horror
by John Hornor Jacobs
The award-winning master of horror presents two chilling stories—The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and My Heart Struck Sorrow—that blend together the psychological and the supernatural while examining the violence and depravity of the human condition. 40,000 first printing.
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The last romantics : a novel
by Tara Conklin
A fictional poet describes the Connecticut summer when she and her siblings ran wild as the inspiration for her most iconic work. By the New York Times best-selling novel of The House Girl. 200,000 first printing
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Confessions in B-flat
by Donna Hill
Follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protégé of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.
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Meet me at the museum
by Anne Youngson
A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way. A first novel.
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The lost for words bookshop
by Stephanie Butland
A secretly heartbroken woman who prefers books to people finds her world upended by the arrivals of a poet, a lover and three suspicious deliveries that reveal that someone has found out about her mysterious past.
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