Sneha, the 22-year-old protagonist of Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel All This Could Be Different, is the dutiful immigrant daughter. Despite the long recession, she bagged a corporate job right after college, and a free apartment in Brewers Hill, Milwaukee. She regularly sends money home to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-08-11 11:00:00 UTC ]
The latest from Jamie Ford, a debut novel by Anthony Marra, and two Jane Austen classics are among the titles selected by book clubs across the country for the month of August. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Taymour Soomro’s debut novel Other Names for Love begins with a son flinching at the sound of his father’s voice. Sixteen-year-old Fahad has been ordered to spend the summer with Rafik, his authoritarian father who manages their family farm in Sindh, Pakistan. It’s on the train ride there that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-08-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
Gentrification takes center stage in Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel Neruda on the Park, which follows the different reactions the members of the Guerrero family have to the impending redevelopment of their predominantly Dominican New York City neighborhood.When a neighboring tenement is demolished... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-07-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
Before we begin, I must confess to my bias. I am not an objective reader, so in some ways I have already failed. A few months before I read Elif Batuman’s debut novel The Idiot, I had a conversation with a friend that unlocked a safe in my brain. After, there was nowhere I could […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-07-19 11:05:00 UTC ]
An excerpt from Tess Gunty's debut novel The Rabbit Hutch. The post Where Life Lives On appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2022-07-19 10:43:28 UTC ]
Leila Mottley’s debut novel about a teenager’s serial abuse is based on a true story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-07 09:00:12 UTC ]
‘Careful when you turn your eyes towards someone, you allow them the chance to turn theirs on you.’ Tice Cin on her debut novel Keeping the House. The post Podcast | Tice Cin appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2022-06-03 13:00:57 UTC ]
I wrote the bulk of my debut novel between 2016 and 2020, years of intense political tension and heightened concern for our planet and the people we love. My debut novel, Walk the Vanished Earth, is a speculative exploration of what it means to be both a parent and a child at the mercy of […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-01 08:51:21 UTC ]
Katie Runde’s debut novel takes readers on a stroll down a sandy boardwalk and into a family facing a big loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-24 09:00:07 UTC ]
A book for “White Lotus” fans, a coming-of-age story in the Canary Islands, Werner Herzog’s debut novel (yes, it’s grim) and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-21 09:00:17 UTC ]
Naheed Phiroze Patel’s debut novel Mirror Made of Rain follows Noomi Wadia, an indignant young woman raised in a Parsi family in India, through a world that is keen to control women and safeguard long-established pecking orders. Since her childhood, Noomi has had a difficult relationship with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-05-19 11:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa Bird-Wilson's debut novel revolves around a Métis girl adopted by a White family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-10 22:14:37 UTC ]
Okay here we go. I’m about to get in my car and drive 14 hours. Rae has picked out twenty albums for us to listen to. All this driving is because my debut novel Teenager is coming out. I have to drive around America a little bit and read it to some nice people. Fittingly, […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-10 08:52:01 UTC ]
The Branford Boase program annually awards a debut novel for children–and the winning author's editor is honored, too. The post Children’s Books Edition: The UK’s Branford Boase Award 2022 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-05-06 19:55:39 UTC ]
Vaishnavi Patel’s debut novel is a powerful, feminist retelling of the epic from the vilified queen’s point of view. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-26 12:19:32 UTC ]
Aamina Ahmad’s debut novel The Return of Faraz Ali begins with a moment of no return. Born and raised in Lahore’s old city, the young Faraz is forced to leave behind his mother and his sister Rozina. It isn’t until Faraz is an adult in 1968 working as a policeman, that he goes back to […] The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel traces a young Chinese woman’s coming-of-age: abandoned, trafficked — and posing as a man. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-04-03 09:00:09 UTC ]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds begins in the time before time and follows the uneasy truce between the living and the dead. Cigarettes are offered, liquor is poured, prayers are said, all in the hope that the buried stay buried. This is the story of Yejide, a young woman who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
Riverhead buys a debut novel about a Georgian father and son fleeing the Russian occupation of South Ossetia in 2008, Joe Abercrombie sells a new trilogy to Tor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]