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Enon by Paul Harding
Paul Harding’s debut novel Tinkers won the Pulitzer Prize, and has been required reading for literary fiction fans ever since. His second novel Enon is about Charlie Crosby (grandson of George Crosby...
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The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
Confession: This is the first time I've read a Laurie King novel (I know, I know). So I'm just now experiencing how her lush environmental prose can transport you—in this case, to Paris, 1929—and how...
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The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
This is the story of a fire, and those consumed by it—in the flames themselves and the grief filled aftermath. Woodrell has filled this stark and bittersweet tale with vivid imagery and distinctively...
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Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Burial Rites is a stunning debut novel immersed in an unfamiliar world: Iceland in 1829. It is the story of Agnes, a condemned murderer who waits out her execution on an isolated farm in the company of...
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The Residue Years by Mitchell Jackson
The Residue Years takes us between the narratives of a woman and her son struggling to reconnect after years of silence. Their lives are juxtaposed against each other through a meta-emotional,...
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Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere by Poe Ballantine
Cheryl Strayed (Wild) wrote the introduction to this book, and in it she captures (in only the way that Cheryl Strayed can) the brilliance and luminosity of Poe Ballantine’s writing. After being a...
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What Poets Are Like by Gary Soto
Gary Soto is the author of children’s books, young adult fiction, and numerous collections of poetry—and is often referred to as one of the nation's first Chicano poets. In What Poets are Like, Soto...
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My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
We are big fans of Luisa Weiss, her blog, The Wednesday Chef, and her charming, inspirational, and delicious book. If you enjoyed Julie and Julia, or are a devotee of Laurie Colwin (shouldn’t everyone...
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Someone by Alice McDermott
National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott (Charming Billy) has done it again. In a deft and transpiring voice, McDermott carries us through seven decades of Marie’s life, beginning in 1920...
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Falling Into the Fire by Christine Montross
I first came to love Christine Montross—a poet-turned-scientist—with her first book, Body of Work—a hauntingly moving memoir about the relationship that formed with a cadaver named Eve that Montross is...
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