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Kris Lackey Just sit in the chair every day and don't chicken out. Something will come to you, even if you have to delete it. I delete most of what I write. …moreJust sit in the chair every day and don't chicken out. Something will come to you, even if you have to delete it. I delete most of what I write. (less)
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Flesh by David Szalay
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Haunting tale of a lonely Hungarian man's serial attachments and turns of fate. Alienation is the through-line, but the protagonist, Istvan, discovers in the end deep attachments in loss. Finely plotted and subtly realized in spare but vivid prose. ...more
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Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
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Two battle-scarred Irish criminal frenemies await the arrival, from Tangier, of a young woman tied to both their pasts in a searing family saga fueled by comic banter. Brilliant dialogue in the vein of Roddy Doyle.
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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
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Compelling memoir about raising a hare in the English countryside. Hour-by-hour account over years--poignant though not sentimental. Moving, direct, vivid.
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Palaver by Bryan Washington
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Brilliant, subtle family drama. Tokyo with Houston backstory. Keen, turbulent dialogue.
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Horse by Geraldine Brooks
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Solid historical/contemporary parallel narrative. Easy transitions between them. Fine character development, fascinating art history and racial conflict through-lines.
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
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I admire all her books. Relish revisiting some of her fine characters in this one. Poignant, unsentimental family histories and vivid local setting.
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Nicked by M.T. Anderson
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Inventive historical adventure. Witty, allusive, propulsive.
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Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
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A stylistically-challenging narrative about a man who was sent from eastern Europe to Wales as a young child by his parents, who wanted to protect him from Hitler. The story follows his efforts to trace his lost parents' last movements before they di ...more
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Foreign Seed by Allison Alsup
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In her brilliant debut, Allison Alsup crafts a flawless and propulsive novel about a green American vice-consul in 1918 China who is sent to find a missing Dutch explorer. Samuel Sokobin is tormented by memories of his fighter-pilot brother, lost ove ...more
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The Wager by David Grann
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David Grann’s vivid and quickly-paced narrative of the Wager shipwreck ranks with recent shipwreck masterworks about the Essex and the Endurance. Gramm meticulously details the horrors and hardships that beset Captain Cheap and his crew, including th ...more
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