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Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone

A silent film star meets a Midwestern mom in sparkling, detailed proseAt the beginning of The Chaperone, Cora Carlisle lives in a small world. Though she spent some time in a New York City orphanage,...

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Mark Haddon, The Red House

Examining a tense, claustrophobic environmentFor a novel with such serious aspirations, The Red House has a lot in common with MTV’s The Real World. Eight near-strangers gather for an extended...

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Carlos Fuentes, Vlad

A thoughtful, witty update on the classic vampire taleIn Vlad, Mexican literary giant Carlos Fuentes puts his own spin on the classic vampire tale, with equal helpings of storytelling convention and...

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Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do Not Improve

An incisively witty portrait of the Bay Area through a murder mystery lensIn The Dead Do Not Improve, author Jay Caspian Kang describes the travails of four Bay Area residents who try to uncover the...

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Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country

Marries poetry and prose in a straightforward, in-depth personal history of the little-discussed Nigerian Civil WarThere Was a Country, Chinua Achebe’s firsthand account of the Nigerian civil war,...

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John Kenney, Truth in Advertising

A discerning, unforgiving look at the absurd world of advertising, through the eyes of a flawed character trying to grow up.Finbar Dolan, the sexually frustrated, commitment-phobic, 30-something...

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Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

An elegant, economical look at the way families evolveIn The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri’s widely celebrated gifts are on full display. The book follows Subhash and Udayan, brothers in the Calcutta...

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