LITERARY FICTION
July 2022
LAPVONA
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet
CULT CLASSIC
Sloane Crosley
One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past
WOMAN OF LIGHT
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist
NIGHTCRAWLING
A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice.
THE MEASURE
Eight ordinary people One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live.
HORSE
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850
Ottessa Moshfegh
Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Leila Mottley
Geraldine Brooks
Nikki Erlick
LASTSUMMERON STATESTREET
ToyaWolfe
ForfansofJacqueline WoodsonandBrit Bennett,astriking coming-of-agedebut aboutfriendship, community,and resilience,setinthe housingprojectsof Chicagoduringone life-changingsummer.
THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
Salma El-Wardany
Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, Malak, Kees, and Jenna learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate As their lives begin to take different paths, Malak, Kees, and Jenna--now on the precipice of true adulthood--must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family, and tradition with their own needs and desires
THESCENTOF BURNTFLOWERS
BlitzBazawule
Fleeingpersecutionin 1960sAmerica,aBlack coupleseeksasylumin Ghana,butfreshdangers andoldsecretsthreaten theirnewfoundfreedom inthishypnoticdebut novel.
ITALLCOMES DOWNTOTHIS
ThereseAnneFowler
ItAllComesDowntoThisisa warm,keenlyperceptive novelofsisterhood, heartbreak,home,andwhat ittakestoremakealifeatits halfwaypoint,forfansofAnn PatchettandEmmaStraub. MeettheGellersisters:Beck, Claire,andSophie,atrioof strong-mindedwomen whosepragmatic,widowed mother,Marti,willbedying soonandtakinghersecrets withher.
ELSEWHERE
Provocative and hypnotic,Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy sheleaves behind.
GHOST LOVER
From Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and “ our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire” (Esquire), Ghost Lover is an electrifying collection of fearless and ferocious short stories
Alexis Schaitkin
Lisa Taddeo
FAMILY
Joseph Han
Nuclear Family draws from Korean myth to explore the generational trauma experienced by families shattered by partition, and the impacts of American imperialism on the Korean peninsula.
THE MIDCOAST
Adam White
The story of a family of lobstermen who skyrocket from poverty to wealth, a local writer obsessed with their rise, and the small-town secrets that bind them all together.
MEANT TO BE
Emily Giffin
In a beautifully written novel that recaptures a gilded moment in American history, Emily Giffin tells a story of a love that may or may not have the power to transcend circumstances that seem arrayed against it and the difficulty of finding your way to the place you belong.
Alan Drew
A series of murders and mysterious hate crimes rocks a quiet California town, leading a cunning detective into the crosshairs of a network of white supremacists in this can’tput-it-down thriller.
Tomi Obaro
The story of three onceinseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years--a sparkling debut novel about mothers and daughters, culture and class, sex and love, and the extraordinary resilience of female friendship
Author
Rebecca Serle
hen Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.
Shelby Van Pelt
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.
JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM
Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek. Candid, biting, and refreshingly real, Just by Looking at Him is an incisive commentary on gay life, a heart-centered, laughout-loud exploration of self, and a rare insight into life as a person with disabilities NUCLEAR
THE RECRUIT
DELE WEDS DESTINY
ONE ITALIAN SUMMER
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
EITHER/OR
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for selfknowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
THE GIRLS IN QUEENS
Christine Kandic Torres
A writer brimming with talent makes her exciting literary debut with a tale of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, New York, an emotionally resonant novel infused with the insight, power, and poignancy of Angie Cruz's Dominicana, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn, and Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends
HOMESICKNESS
Thesecondbookfromthe "exactandpoetic" (New YorkTimes)authorof criticalsmashYoungSkins, winneroftheRooneyPrize forIrishLiteratureanda NationalBookFoundation5 Under35,Homesicknessis anemotionallyresonant andwonderfullywry collectionthatfollowsthe livesofoutcasts,misfits, andmalcontentsfrom CountyMayotoCanada.
WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet in 1959, Lhamo and her younger sister Tenkyi arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal. Lhamo and Tenkyi survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile, but their parents did not Now, Lhamohaunted by the loss of her homeland and the memory of her mother, a village oracle-is trying to rebuild a life amid a shattered community.
HernanDiaz
Eventhroughtheroarand effervescenceofthe1920s, everyoneinNewYorkhas heardofBenjaminandHelen Rask.HeisalegendaryWall Streettycoon;sheisthe brilliantdaughterofeccentric aristocrats. Butthesecrets aroundtheiraffluenceand grandeurincitesgossip. RumorsaboutBenjamin's financialmaneuversand Helen'sreclusivenessstartto spread--allasadecadeof excessandspeculation drawstoanend Atwhatcost havetheyacquiredtheir immensefortune?
THEOTHER MOTHER
RachelMHarper
Apage-turning generationalsagaabout ayoungman'ssearch foraparenthenever knew,andamoving portraitofmotherhood, race,andthetruthswe hideinthenameof family.
Tsering Yangzom Lama
Elif Batuman
TRUST
ColinBarret
