I read Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ debut novel The Exhibition of Persephone Q in a single sitting on the Sunday afternoon before the quarantine. I was magnetized not just by a great story, but one that felt uncannily timely. The novel is set in the days after 9/11, a period when America was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-17 08:48:14 UTC ]
Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-15 22:39:46 UTC ]
Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-15 22:39:46 UTC ]
Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-15 22:39:46 UTC ]
Set in alternate Tudor England, “Sin Eater” by Megan Campisi is a riveting tale of female empowerment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-15 06:00:00 UTC ]
Check out the cover for E. Lily Yu's debut novel of magic and migration, ON FRAGILE WAVES. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-04-14 10:35:08 UTC ]
In this debut novel by the Chinese author An Yu, male characters propel the heroine into a journey of self-discovery. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-14 09:00:21 UTC ]
‘There was something Shakespearean about imperious men going down on you: the mighty have fallen.’ An extract from Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times. The post Exciting Times appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2020-04-14 08:55:03 UTC ]
“How Much of These Hills Is Gold,” by C Pam Zhang, reimagines the region’s past as a Chinese-American tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-07 09:00:07 UTC ]
At once subversive and searching, the debut novel focuses on two sisters on the run whose roots lie in an unnamed country “from beyond the ocean.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-06 20:54:23 UTC ]
Chelsea Bieker's 'Godshot,' a surreal debut novel set in the parched Central Valley, depicts a fundamentalist rain cult and sex worker resisters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-06 14:30:59 UTC ]
Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut novel envisions an archipelago of Indigenous peoples who refuse to be erased. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-31 12:43:39 UTC ]
The debut novel intersperses the story of a tech reporter in Silicon Valley with Facebook posts, tweets, Google results and other fragments. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
In Megan Giddings’s debut novel Lakewood, desperation leads to a loss of self in a capitalist medical system bent on taking advantage of Black people and their bodies. After the death of her grandmother, Lena, a college student struggling with overwhelming medical debt and taking care of her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-03-24 11:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus is to publish the debut novel of Nicole Kennedy, a former city lawyer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 14:35:00 UTC ]
“My Dark Vanessa” will strike a chord with women. But it ought to be read by men Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
MARA FAYE LETHEM is one of the translators of Albert Sánchez Piñol, a Catalan writer whose debut novel Cold Skin, a sparse psychological thriller, caused a sensation in Spain. Lethem also translated Piñol’s second novel, Pandora in the Congo, a fabulist tale that is by turns laugh-out-loud funny... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-19 19:00:32 UTC ]
“My Dark Vanessa” will strike a chord with women. But it ought to be read by men Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-03-19 15:48:46 UTC ]
TFW you didn't love the debut novel and are completely taken by surprise when you fall head over heels for that same author's second book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-19 10:35:57 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Publishing has won Imogen Crimp’s debut novel, The High Notes, in a four-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 18:04:44 UTC ]