In this issue, we cover fresh releases by winners of the Booker and Man Booker Prizes. Arundhati Roy’s illuminating memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me chronicles a difficult mother-daughter relationship, and Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which puts her on the shortlist for this year’s Booker, too, is a memorable tale of familial and romantic love.
We also review the latest from Patricia Lockwood, whose debut novel was a 2021 Booker finalist. Will There Ever Be Another You, her dazzling new work of autofiction, takes on the early years of the pandemic and features a writer struggling with Long Covid.
Other recent and upcoming fiction by established authors includes Lily King’s college love triangle story Heart the Lover, the title of which comes from a semi-fictionalized card game played by the characters, Dan Chaon’s One of Us, inspired by America’s history of sideshows and circus “freaks,” and R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis, a fantastical satire of academia that riffs on classic journeys to the underworld.
We also bring you Addie E. Citchens’ buzzy debut Dominion, an intense family drama that shows how the actions of women within patriarchal power structures matter.
Would you like to own a beautiful, limited edition hardcover of your favorite Kristin Hannah book? Read our article on the increasing popularity of deluxe editions—not just for fantasy and YA, but literary and historical fiction, too.
Plus, enjoy additional reviews and articles, previews of upcoming releases, book club recommendations, and more.
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