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The Edge of Water
Some of Bankole’s phrasing and sentence structure is rough and/or difficult to follow, but overall this debut is a success.
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Dogs and Monsters: Stories
A wonderfully entertaining assortment of grim and dystopic tales that demonstrate Haddon’s tremendous skills and versatility as a storyteller. (The novelist, poet, screenwriter, and children’s book author and illustrator is best known for his award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.)
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Shred Sisters
Lerner’s fiction debut, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, exceeds at depicting the damage that one family member’s mental illness can wreak on others, but some readers may want even more coverage of the sisters’ relationship with each other.
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Don’t Be a Stranger
The novel’s structure is a bit unbalanced, but it showcases best Minot’s characteristically elegant and sparse prose. For most readers, this work won’t hold up to the standard that Minot set with earlier works, such as her first novel, Monkeys.
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Unspeakable Home
This recommended book blends autofiction and a metanarrative. Give to Prcic’s fans and to readers looking for a structure that’s highly distinctive.
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Pearl
Hughes shows off her skills as an award-winning poet in this well-executed exploration of the emotional impact parental loss can inflict on a young person. Readers will also appreciate the author’s introduction of a nursery rhyme or some folkloric element for each chapter’s epigraph.
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Villa E
Alison skillfully probes the nature of collaboration, influence, and credit in the world of architecture and design, as well as the often gender-confining roles of artists.
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The Sky Was Ours
Fassler excels at detailing the nuances of his three characters’ personalities as well as the landscape of Lack and the beauty of human flight. True to its original source, this is a powerful parable about the promise of freedom through flight, balanced against the perils of human hubris and the limits of technology and innovation.
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