[Reviewlet] The Forgetting Tree, by Tatjana Soli
Bestselling author Tatjana Soli sets forth an ambitious and harrowing tale in her new novel.
Bestselling author Tatjana Soli sets forth an ambitious and harrowing tale in her new novel.
A debut collection focused on quiet lives that intersect, collide, and separate – forever altered by the encounter.
In her thoughtful, entertaining new collection, Signs and Wonders, Alix Ohlin lures readers into what seem like lulls, and then, there it is: a car crash. A coma. A missing child. A man licking a woman’s leg.
Rosie Dastgir’s deeply satisfying first novel, A Small Fortune, concerns an extended Pakistani family in contemporary England.
Emily St. John Mandel’s third noir novel is a stylish and suspenseful read.
Bierlein’s debut collection features familiar, post-Sex and the City storylines, but with glimpses of originality and verve.
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With her debut novel, Regina O’Melveny’s heroine embarks on a journey through Renaissance Europe. Indebted to The Bard, the book inhabits many worlds worth exploring.
Michael Griffith’s latest novel captures the last twenty minutes of a man’s life: Vada finishes mowing the lawn, eats cookie dough for lunch, and suffocates under the weight of his friend Wyatt’s stuffed trophy bear. It’s a joke wrapped in a pun inside a pratfall, but this book gives good pathos, too.
Jesús Ángel García’s debut “transmedia” novel, badbadbad is fast, fun, irreverent, and unlike anything else in the fiction aisle. Starring a lead character who shares the author’s name, the book follows his descent from devout webmaster to the obsessed savior of a pornographic social network. Also included: a documentary, a soundtrack, a chapter-by-chapter YouTube playlist.
