kimlockhartga@beige.partyU.S. Book Releases, along with my understanding of what the book is about.
I'm a day late; been busy.
It's a treasure trove!
ROUSE, by China Miéville.
Let's allow the plot be a surprise to us all, shall we?
MESTRA, Madeline Miller.
80 page short story about her favorite subject: forgotten and/or misunderstood figures from Greek mythology.
THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS, Isabel Cañas.
Gothic YA. (Gothic novels are popular right before Halloween.)
DODGE CITY, Patrick deWitt.
This one is hard to describe. It sounds very entertaining. Let's go with Picaresque. But it's much more than that.
AMERICAN HAGWON, by Min Jin Lee (author of Pachinko).
The author returns with another family saga, but this time in a modern day setting. Is Contemporary Immigrant Fiction a genre? It is now.
THE RADIANCE, Ayad Akhtar (author of Homeland Elegies).
The author puts a lot of himself into this novel, tackling academia, satirizing the world we live in, examining our existence from a philosophical point of view, and even expressing genuine spirituality.
THE UNHAUNTING, Micaiah Jonson.
The author of The Space Between Worlds duology has gone in a totally different direction, with this Post-Civil War Southern Gothic novel. How about a little Haunted House?
THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN, by Deesha Philyaw, known for her dynamite short story collection: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. This is a full-length novel.
Hey, if scandal is what it takes to break free from Megachurches, I'm all for it.
PLY, by Pulitzter Prize winner Hernan Diaz, author of Trust.
Do you like puzzle box novels? This one is structured in four different pov, all pointing at the same subjects from different angles: systemic structures that uphold capitalism, and who has the power to decide truth. Set in the volatile 1920s and 1930s. Historical Literary Fiction.