1. Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
(5 Rave, 2 Positive)
“…[a] brilliant graphic memoir … a wondrous panel-by-panel archive of the interplay between her rapacious intellect and her expansive imagination.”
–Lisa Shea (Elle)
*
2. The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
(5 Rave, 1 Positive)
“If The Golden Legend documents agonizing political and sectarian realities, it is also masterful and compelling fiction.”
–Rebecca Steinitz (The Boston Globe)
*
3. A Grace Paley Reader by Grace Paley, Ed. by Kevin Bowen
(5 Rave, 1 Positive)
“If the Reader was intended as a memorial, published a decade after her death, it now seems more pressing—a necessary antidote to the current demoralization of the American left…”
–Nicholas Dames (The Atlantic)
*
4. Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
(4 Rave)
“…simultaneously dazzling and apt … With anger and lucidity, Luiselli depicts the nightmares these children are forced to flee in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, as well as the destructive ignorance and bigotry that awaits them in America.”
–Kathleen Rooney (The Chicago Tribune)
*
5. Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
(3 Rave, 2 Positive)
“This may be the first time since I began this job that I’ve wanted to send notes of admiration to three people in a work of nonfiction … Janesville is eye-opening, important, a diligent work of reportage.”
–Jennifer Senior (The New York Times)
