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BOOKS FOR SUMMER Recommendations from
STACY GRANING
General Manager, Brookhaven Magazine
This edition’s summer reads offer a mix of thoughtprovoking essays and page-turning thrillers deisgned for weekends at the beach or by the pool.
The Heathens (A Quinn Colson Novel #11) By Ace Atkins Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run.
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories By Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Grisham Writer in Residence 2020-2021) A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow
Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light: Essays By Helen Ellis In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, “Are you there, Menopause? It’s Me, Helen.”
The Turnout By Megan Abbott Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott’s revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio.
What Strange Paradise By Omar El Akkad From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War, a new novel--beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving--that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.
22 July/August 2021
