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HOW TO BEHAVE IN A CROWD — Camille Bordas
Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects …
THE LESSER BOHEMIANS — Eimear McBride
THE LESSER BOHEMIANS threw me for a loop. McBride's prose style is so unique, fragmented and bizarre. Her characters leap off the page, fleshed out by past traumas and present experiences. After reading this book, I immediately went back to McBride's A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING—I could no…
HAG-SEED — Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, HAG-SEED, had no reason to stun me, as I have no attachment to the source material. I should have known, however, that I was in great hands: Margaret's writing stuns, from sentence to sentence, from page to page; she has crafted …
HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang
HUMAN ACTS han kangHan Kang's HUMAN ACTS is brilliant and beautiful. It read quickly, pages turning as if the font were twice its size, but not easily—there is much to parse here. Kang's style breaks from tradition, but is vivid and evocative. The story, vicious and unrelenting, broke my hea…
HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSE by jennifer niven
HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSEjennifer niven
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, …