![]() Ready? Here it is: A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. I defy you to hear the premise of this sophomore novel from the always-interesting Henry Hoke ( The Groundhog Forever) and not immediately smash that preorder button. Winner of the 2021 Costa Novel Award, The Memory of Animals promises to be thought-provoking and close to home. As the pandemic causes chaos around the world, Neffy uses a controversial device that allows her to revisit her past (with several appearances from her beloved octopi). There’s a deadly pandemic going on, and Neffy, a 27-year-old marine biologist, volunteers for an experimental vaccine trial in London. It promises to be a story of fractured selves, alter egos, and an adventure into the wild uncanny. ![]() This doppelganger, at the time of their encounter, was purchasing mechanical dancing horses-a detail in the book’s description that only leaves me more intrigued. I’m particularly excited to read her new novel, August Blue, which is about a woman who comes face-to-face with her doppelganger. In The Cost of Living, Real Estate, and Hot Milk (a fan favorite amongst my friends), this Booker Prize finalist has time and time again proven herself to be a master of the written word. –DS Deborah Levy, August BlueĪ new Deborah Levy novel is always cause for celebration. She also considers what the future of this civilization-altering substance might look like on a rapidly warming planet. Ice is a history of ice written by Orion Magazine executive director and brilliant writer/climate journalist Amy Brady ( The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate), who details “the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old history of ice in America,” from mixed drinks to motel hallways, skating rinks to cryotherapy treatments. Much like Colonel Aureliano Buendía and his father, I’ve always been fascinated by ice, and eager for somebody to write a decent narrative history of the stuff. –ETĪmy Brady, Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks-a Cool History of a Hot Commodity Hello, yes, please sign me right up for this adventure novel about Shek Yeung, Chinese pirate queen of life and legend, who commands a fleet, has a child on the high seas, and fights for both with all the ferocity you would expect. –JH Rita Chang-Eppig, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea But while Lou knows she should be grateful, she’s paralyzed with fear and questions surrounding her murder that are left up to her to understand and uncover-everybody is a suspect, nobody is to be trusted.This genre-bending, magical realist, darkly clever novel isn’t to be missed. In this novel, the murder victim, Lou, is brought back to life (bear with) under a government experiment, returned to her happy life and adorable child, given a second chance to live the life that shouldn’t have been cut short. Who in the world doesn’t like a murder mystery, especially one that goes beyond the rote formula of: murder occurring, detective arriving, clues discovered, murderer revealed? My Murder indisputably upends the traditional format while delivering the excitement and mystery we’ve come to expect from the genre. This one is not to be missed! –EF Katie Williams, My Murder ![]() In doing so, she reveals more about humanity than most writers could in a lifetime. ![]() Erpenbeck’s novels use finely observed (cool, unsentimental) personal relationships as lenses that provide panoramic views of broader society-her novels are as much about history, time, and place as they are about the characters that inhabit them. ![]() The story follows 19-year-old East-Berliner Katharina and her affair with an older, married writer, Hans, against the background of the declining GDR. In June New Directions will publish Kairos by the brilliant Jenny Erpenbeck. In Cosby’s latest, the first Black sheriff of a small Southern town investigates the murder of an unarmed black man and finds himself uncovering dangerous secrets about the very foundations of his community. Cosby is awesome and his new book is bound to be awesome too. Why isn’t this one on Netgalley yet, she cries into the abyss? Anyway, despite my lack of access to this book at the moment, I can assure you that S. ![]()
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