Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward.
An American fiction that shows the terrible beauty of life along the nation’s lower margins. “Old truths are recast here in new realities rife with both peril and promise”.
The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle.
A story collection with the wittiness characteristic of Boyle and droll humor and of course seemingly inexhaustible wealth of imaginations.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan.
Pulitzer Prize winner Egan, who claimed the prize in 2010 with the book A Visit from the Goon, writes a traditional novel that is not in her style. It contains elements of poetry and is realistic.
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich.
The novel is written in a dreamlike POV and is filled with suspense with the theme of evolution that is on reverse, with references to environmental degradation that we already face.
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides.
A collection of short stories that gives an unexpected twist in the lives of well-off and well-intentioned people. The events occur in the most curious of ways in this collection.
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.
Horror story from two Kings that leaves no intended message other than lives go on despite the most unnatural occurrences.
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud.
Charged with intense emotional plots and narrative that leaves one feeling haunted, the novel peers into the intricacies of friendship between two adolescent girls who grew apart as they grew up.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
As a second novel, the book shows the writer’s ability to strike sensitive nerves in readers and shows promise of a good writing career. The book centers on the incandescent portrait of suburbia and family.
Source: Huffpost.com
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