![]() ![]() 1), a new career high from Patchett, building on “State of Wonder,” “Commonwealth” and “The Dutch House,” a run that cemented her stature as our great chronicler of family. “August Blue” by Levy (June 6) is another slender, elegant, sparse novel that belies depths: A concert pianist walks offstage mid-performance, abandoning her career, only to stumble on her twin following her across Europe. (Courtesy of Harper/TNS)īetween Deborah Levy, Lorrie Moore, Ann Patchett and Ann Beattie, it’s hard to think of an upper-middle-class malaise that hasn’t been unsettled in their pages. Front cover of “Small Mercies” by Dennis Lehane. ![]() Time itself narrates, then the story slides, touchingly, through generations of women in a family nursing pain – but also shouldering an ability to time travel into their pasts. 1) only sounds corny if you have never read Edan Lepucki. 1) by David Connor, only that it sells the dual feelings of awe and loss in an America where the sun has vanished suddenly. I’m not going to say much about “Oh God, the Sun Goes” (Aug. Picture Jack London, but with a more nuanced handling of broken, damaged men. ![]() Then I read it, luxuriated in it, and I could not stop reading it. I giggled for a full year at the premise: A man is trapped in a whale and must find a way out. He has no collaborator here, and it should make him a star. He collaborated with George Romero on a “Living Dead” book, cowrote (with Guillermo Del Toro) the story that became “The Shape of Water.” But remember this title: “Whalefall” (Aug. What follows are 13 choose-your-own-adventure themes for this year’s edition of summer reading.ĭaniel Kraus is one of those bubbling-under authors. Spend your summer scaling just the mountain of some great Big City-themed books so far this year – Jonathan Eig’s “King,” Catherine Lacey’s “Biography of X,” Aleksandar Hemon’s “The World and All That It Holds” – buttressing it with great Big City books to come in the next eight weeks, and that list would go so long, you’d look up and see Halloween candy in Walgreens. Make a list so long you never finish it, but show up every day for it: Give yourself a minor degree in true crime or octopuses. Historical biographies, or rock ‘n’ roll bios. Or only Nordic noir, or only Asian sci-fi. Pick a theme for your summer reading and dive into it until Labor Day: Read only books banned in Florida. Rather than burdening yourself with postcard dreams of a beach towel and a book, instead of picturing yourself inside a portrait of lazy mornings with a hammock and a Stephen King, toss out the bougie old summer reading mirage (has it ever been attainable for more than an hour or two?) and replace it – as I do, to the detriment of family, TV and sleep – with a small project. (Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company/TNS) Front cover of "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea. ![]()
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