Weather: A Novel Published February 11, 2020 In her new book Weather, the author Jenny Offill takes us through the Five Stages of Climactic Grief. Said to be “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in...
A Long Petal of the Sea Published 2020 A novel from the author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. This epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to...
American Dirt Published 2020 Jeanine Cummins’ new novel, American Dirt, is about the ordeal of a Mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the United States with her son. “This book is not simply the great...
little gods Published January 14, 2020 Meng Jin is a writer whose sweep is as intimate as it is global. Little Gods is a novel about the heart-wracking ways in which we move through history and time. A fierce and intelligent debut from a writer with longitude and...
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains Published February 4, 2020 Ariana Neumann’s new memoir gives her readers a deeply personal and moving story. When TimeStopped is two stories. The first is the story about a woman, the author, who becomes...
The Resisters Published February 4, 2020 Gish Jen’s newest book, The Resisters, is set in the near future in a country called Autoamerica, which isinspired by Orwell’s 1984. In this dystopian world, a young girl named Gwen (a gifted baseball player fromthe lower end...
