Entertainment Weekly - October 20, 2017


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BEFORE THE DEVIL BREAKS YOU ByLibba BrayYA E A

This third installment of Bray’s spectral Diviners series is set

during the Jazz Age in New York City—though the social and

political parallels to 2017 are unmistakable—where a mental

hospital has been overrun by malevolent ghosts.

FRESH COMPLAINT ByJeffrey EugenidesSHORT STORIES E CA

TheMiddlesexnovelist and Pulitzer Prize winner experiments with

short-form fiction in rich, drily funny stories about people whose lives go

unexpectedly awry.

MANHATTAN BEACH ByJennifer EganNOVEL E CA

There are at least four Great American Novels pressed between the pages

of Egan’s Brooklyn-set latest: moody gangster noir, sweeping WWII romance,

classic New York immigrants’ tale, and timeless story of the sea.

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KIDS’ BOOKS

THE PURLOINING OF PRINCE OLEOMARGARINE

ByMark Twain and Philip Stead; illustrated by Erin SteadFAIRY TALE E A

An unfinished tale Mark Twain wrote for his daughters is completed

and stunningly illustrated by husband-and-wife team Philip and Erin Stead.

MUPPETS MEET THE CLASSICS: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

ByGaston Leroux & Erik Forrest JacksonNOVEL

Playwright Jackson makes Miss Piggy’s dreams come true,

putting the pink diva and her Muppet pals on stage.

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NONFICTION

THE GLASS EYE ByJeannie VanascoMEMOIR ECA

Vanasco’s brilliant, obsessive book describes how she grieved the father

she loved ferociously—and how that grief exacerbated her own mental illness

during the decade after his death.

WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER

ByTa-Nehisi CoatesESSAYS ECA

In his latest—eight essays originally published in The Atlantic,

each revisited in a new foreword—Coates brings both a big

stick and a scalpel to what the book’s subtitle dubsAn Ameri-

can Tragedy: the ugly realities of race from the Civil War on.

BUNNY MELLON ByMeryl Gordon BIOGRAPHY EA

The socialite and friend of JFK was fiercely private, but following her 2014

death, Mellon’s family allowed biographer Gordon access to her world.

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY ByCaitlin DoughtySOCIOLOGY E A

Doughty, mortician and author ofSmoke Gets in Your Eyes,

continues to stoke our fascination with death in this exploration

of how cultures across the globe care for their dead.

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