![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, a historical novel historical novel set in colonial German East Africa, what is now Tanzania.“The Candy House” by Jennifer Egan, a sci-fi-ish novel that finds characters able to use a piece of technology to access every memory they've ever had."Liberation Day" by George Saunders, a collection of short stories by Saunders, winner of the Booker Prize, among dozens of other literary awards.“Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson, a novel about two siblings who uncover their mothers’ secrets after she dies.“The School for Good Mothers” by Jessamine Chan, a dystopian drama about mothers who are encouraged to “reform” their parenting.“The Furrows: A Novel” by Namwali Serpell, a novel that explores the grief a sister feels after the death of her little brother.“Trust” by Hernan Diaz, a novel that examines themes of money, power and intimacy, set in the booming but doomed financial world of 1920s New York.John Mandel, a novel spanning places and times that takes the reader from an island off of Vancouver in 1912 to a future colony on the moon. “I wanted to know what was going to happen and who these characters were," she said. When she announced February's book was “Black Cake,” a family saga about siblings discovering their parents’ past, she raved about the novel. ![]()
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