Fiction
The Dark Flood Rises Margaret Drabble PB $ 29.99 Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, holed up as the waters rise, and texts her son as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. In her new book, Margaret Drabble explores the end of life with her trademark humour, composure and wisdom.
Here I Am Jonathan Safran Foer PB $ 32.99 Over the course of three weeks in Washington DC, three sons watch their parents ' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us— what is the true meaning of home?
The Mothers Brit Bennett PB $ 32.99 Nadia Turner is a rebellious, griefstricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’ s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a“ what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself.
All That Man Is David Szalay PB $ 32.99 Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are— ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, hilarious, and full of longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become high in this portrayal of 21st-century manhood.
The Nix Nathan Hill PB $ 29.99 Samuel is a stalled writer who hasn ' t seen his mother in decades. Now she has reappeared, having committed a crime that electrifies the nightly news. As Samuel begins to investigate, the story moves from the Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during the recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and back to the 1968 Chicago riots. Samuel will have to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother— a woman with an epic story of her own.
Today Will Be Different Maria Semple PB $ 32.99 Eleanor Flood is going to clean up her act, only change into yoga clothes for yoga, which today she will actually attend, and be a better version of herself. But then, as it always does, life happens. With all the artistic madness, genius plotting, and bold social observation that made Where’ d You Go, Bernadette a hit, Today Will Be Different is a hilarious and heart filled day-in-the-life romp filtered through Maria Semple ' s brilliant eyes.