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Tokyo Ueno
Station
YU MIRI
Kazu, a migrant
laborer, existed on
the edges of society
before he died—and
there he remains, as
a ghost reminiscing
on his past. Yu sets
one small life against
the broad backdrop
of 20th century
Japanese history.Party of Two
JASMINE GUILLORY
A Black lawyer and
a white politician
decide to keep their
relationship private,
which is all fun and
secret dates until
the media finds out.
Guillory pushes past
her rom-com premise
to offer insightful
reflections on
interracial romance.
Sex and Vanity
KEVIN KWAN
Lucie is torn between
two suitors and
two versions of a
possible future. In
Kwan’s first novel
since the Crazy Rich
Asians series, his
heroine is indeed
insanely wealthy but
soon discovers that
money can’t buy a
sense of self.Want
LYNN STEGER
STRONG
Strong highlights
the anxieties that
come with ambition
in her story of a white
30-something mother
facing bankruptcy
and exhaustion,
asking how
seemingly attainable
goals can lead to
debilitating chaos.Topics of
Conversation
MIRANDA POPKEY
Popkey offers a
compelling new layer
to the conversation
about consent,
following an
unnamed narrator
through 17 years
of discussions with
women who want
to be dominated
by men.We Ride
Upon Sticks
QUAN BARRY
The 1989 Danvers
High School field-
hockey team is
willing to do whatever
it takes to play in
the state finals,
including drawing
on their town’s ties
to the Salem witch
trials and consulting
dark magic.Weather
JENNY OFFILL
Lizzie is growing
increasingly
obsessed with the
impending doom
of the planet due
to climate change,
discovering that even
small stresses like
babies who won't nap
and dogs in need of
care blend easily with
existential dread.A Saint
From Texas
EDMUND WHITE
In White’s delightfully
irreverent novel,
Yvette and Yvonne
are twins from Texas
who, aside from
their looks, share
only their desire to
leave—even after
oil is discovered
beneath their
father’s land.Enter the Aardvark
JESSICA ANTHONY
A young Republican Congressman
unexpectedly receives a giant
taxidermied aardvark, which sets
off a series of amusing events as
the politician uncovers who sent
the package and why.To Be a Man
NICOLE KRAUSS
Novelist Krauss explores
gender, power and aging in her
first collection of short stories,
which reflects on what does—
and does not—make men and
women different.Leave the World Behind
RUMAAN ALAM
In the midst of an unprecedented
blackout in New York, two
families attempt to navigate
increasingly eerie events under
one roof in Long Island, cut off
from the rest of the world.Luster
RAVEN LEILANI
Edie, a 20-something in a slow-
burning crisis, finds herself in
an impossibly strange situation:
moving in with her married
boyfriend, his wife and their
adopted daughter.Piranesi
SUSANNA CLARKE
Piranesi is marooned
in a seemingly
limitless series
of hallways, alone
except for one
other person he
occasionally sees,
yet content—until he
begins to discover a
sinister explanation
for his strange
circumstances.
Run Me to Earth
PAUL YOON
In 1960s Laos, three
orphaned teenagers
spend their days
helping a doctor
deliver supplies to
the wounded amid a
civil war, risking their
lives and spending
their nights in a
makeshift hospital,
dreaming of being
anywhere else.