The latest books to add to your TBR piles—out this week! FICTION THE GLORIOUS HERESIES by Lisa McInerney The Glorious Heresies is a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. Georgie is a sex worker who…
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Called “an inspiration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Homegoing is a novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. Here, Yaa Gyasi chats with the folks at Beaks and Geeks about diaspora, history, her ambitious debut novel, and more. Listen to the Beaks and Geeks Interview with Yaa Gyasi. Click to Check Out More Beaks and…
FEATURED TITLES: The Book of Esther by Emily Barton The Book of Esther is a profound saga of war, technology, mysticism, power, and faith. This novel—simultaneously a steampunk Joan of Arc and a genre-bending tale of a counterfactual Jewish state by a writer who invents worlds “out of Calvino or Borges” (The New Yorker)—is a stunning achievement. Reminiscent of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, The Book of Esther reaffirms Barton’s place as one of her generation’s most gifted storytellers. Click here to download the book club kit. The Dollhouse by Fiona…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Call me Ishmael. The right opening line can make the hairs on the back of your head stand up. They are quoted, stitched into samplers, made into posters. Immortal. Just as bewitching though, is the right last line. If the opener entices us, and gives us a sense of the bounty to come, then the closer is the final thought…
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to walk on the moon on July 20th, 1969. Since then, space exploration continues to fascinate and propel science and entrepreneurs. However, NASA has recently been “trending” for another reason–their cameras cut out just after showing an unidentified flying object leading to questions and conspiracy theories along the lines of “what does NASA not want us to see?” NASA responded that the station “regularly passes out of range,” which causes the video signal to disappear. To satisfy piqued interest in UFOs we have objects to identify ourselves . . . in the way of…
