PositiveBookPageA wholehearted, fun exploration of dating and love in the 21st century ... Young’s charming British English pairs with a young millennial’s quirky, anxious interiority for a fun, surprisingly profound read.
Jennine Capó Crucet
PositiveBookPageThere is something quixotic in watching Izzy spin himself and those around him into remakes of culture, but this, too, is true about the immigrant experience, which Capó Crucet details with breathtaking precision ... [Capó Crucet] also has a rare knack for metanarrative, a skill that allows readers to think about Izzy’s story as a story without ruining its intimacy.
Amor Towles
PositiveBookPageEngaging, artful ... Towles forces the reader and his characters to address these questions, and the answers you find in this book will move you.
Isabel Waidner
RaveBookPage\"The plot toes the line of ridiculousness in a truly masterful way, never ceasing to surprise, and Waidner’s ultramodern language, a mix of the Queen’s English and Tumblr-speak, results in some strangely beautiful sentences. All the while, the characters are developed in subtle, touching ways. For example, in a socially awkward, quintessentially millennial moment of tenderness, Corey expresses that they would be utterly lost without Drew, who has stood by them throughout their flailing career as a writer. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is a flashy, punchy whirlwind: Waidner has caught lightning in a bottle.\
Hisham Matar
RaveBookPageThis scintillating novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is filled with equal parts history and fiction ... Flows quickly and vividly ... Readers are sure to be touched, coming to a deeper understanding of friendship, nation and home.
Justin Torres
RaveBookPageBrings together several strands of both Latin American and queer literature, making for a moving metatextual conversation ... Manner is something like a way of being and acting, a way of holding memory, and Blackouts limns it intimately, in all its cultural and geographical insanity. Juan and nene see each other, they come together and they bring us with them.
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
PositiveBookPageTshuma writes beautifully about the stars and the people who watch them, mixing poetic prose with tangibly emotional descriptions ... Allows readers to uncover new ideas and emotions well into the book. Between Athandwa’s desire to follow her father, the rejection she faces from American society and the distressing backdrop of a war-torn Zimbabwe, this book re-creates an intricate web of immigrant life. Tshuma traces multiple stories of family, immigration and self-discovery into a thrilling and beautiful constellation.
Héctor Tobar
RaveBookPagesing both his own personal narrative and testimonies from a rainbow of people of color (not just Latinx folks), Tobar manages to capture the breadth of Latinidad (i.e., the diaspora of Latinx peoples) in the United States and beyond. With moving passages about triumph in the face of adversity, tragic stories of those lost to brutality and a scathing critique of U.S. immigration policy, this book is a call to action, the first step in a redefinition of that elusive word, Latino, and an important piece in a more complete picture of humanity.
Edmund White
RaveBookPageAn outrageous, tender novel that complicates contemporary ideas of what traditional, \'appropriate\' desires and relationships look like ... White forces readers to become intimate with what they might otherwise denounce ... White keeps his journey engaging, hilarious and moving throughout ... This novel is as mischievous as it is thought-provoking. It is Edmund White at his very best.
Esther Yi
RaveBookPageYi speaks to some of the most pressing ideas in today’s culture with wit and grace ... Yi explores how gender discrimination and racism (particularly fetishization) can be the outcome of such constructed realities, as characters repeat Korean stereotypes and parrot a culture they have no real link to ... Y/N is one of the most daring novels of the year. Yi has set a new standard for internet-influenced literature by showing that online and literary narratives exist hand in hand, creating the world with every word.
