Maggie Shipstead’s Booker Prize long-listed novel, Great Circle, is an impossibly wide-reaching piece of historical fiction that totally defies any effort to summarize briefly. The novel’s twin threads focus on two women living totally different lives: first, there’s Marian Graves, an orphan who survived a great tragedy in her infancy and grew up to become… Continue reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
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How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Purchase a copy for yourself here! There is perhaps no subset of literature that feels more emblematic of the white male literary canon than the classic American western novel. In her Booker Prize nominated debut, How Much of These Hills is Gold, C Pam Zhang brings the western novel into a new century. The novel… Continue reading How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Marlon James’ 2015 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is virtually impossible to summarize in any meaningful way. The novel is a sprawling epic said amid a time of political chaos in Jamaica during the 1960s and 70s, featuring fifteen narrators, each with unique dialects… Continue reading A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Testaments is Margaret Atwood’s response to fans that have been clamoring for answers about the fate of characters from her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. This original text has taken on a new relevance in the Trump Era, as the religious right has risen to prominence once again,… Continue reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood