It’s a busy week this week with 53 curated titles publishing, including a debut our members loved.
The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. “Glorious...Revelatory...A tragic, haunting exercise in the limitations of not-quite unconditional love...First-time novelist Jemimah Wei poignantly, affectingly observes an extended family that sunders from dysfunction and betrayals” (Shelf Awareness).
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.
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The Original Daughter: A Novel
by Jemimah Wei
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from Doubleday
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5
In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.
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All the Mothers: A Novel
by Domenica Ruta
On sale May 6 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From New York Times bestselling author Domenica Ruta comes a heartfelt, hilarious novel about a single mom reimagining what the perfect family can look like.
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Home of the American Circus: A Novel
by Allison Larkin
On sale May 6 from Gallery Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 432 pages
The acclaimed author of the "lyrical coming-of-age novel" (Good Morning America) The People We Keep returns with a luminous new story of redemption, breaking generational curses, and the power of family in its truest form.
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Old School Indian: A Novel
by Aaron John Curtis
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from Zando
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.
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The Names: A Novel
by Florence Knapp
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from Pamela Dorman Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
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The Director: A Novel
by Daniel Kehlmann
On sale May 6 from Summit Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From "one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today" (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich.
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Are You Happy?: Stories
by Lori Ostlund
On sale May 6 from Astra House
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Nine exquisite stories that explore class, desire, identity, and the specter of violence that looms daily over women and the LGBTQ+ community.
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The Retirement Plan
by Sue Hincenbergs
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from William Morrow
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
by Katie Goh
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from Tin House Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Per person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there.
What stories could I unravel from the orange's long ribboning peel? What new meanings could I find in its variousness, as it moves from east to west and from familiar to foreign?
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Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
by Amanda Hess
Debut Author
On sale May 6 from Doubleday
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
As an internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess had built a reputation among readers as a sharp observer of the seductions and manipulations of online life. But when Hess discovered she was pregnant with her first child, she found herself unexpectedly rattled by a digital identity crisis of her own.
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