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Genevieve Kingston
Rave Booklist Kingston’s generous telling of her youth and loss is unforgettable and profound.
Max Ludington
Positive Booklist \"Reading like time capsules, pages are laced with scenes from a Grateful Dead concert, lyrics by The Doors, and descriptions of LSD experiences. The characters’ personal stories are marked by addiction, abuse, and mysticism, and organically pose questions about love, trauma, art, and reality. Readers interested in 1960s counterculture and the psychological elements of character development will find this novel engrossing and ultimately suspenseful.\
Ross Perlin
Positive Booklist This fascinating book for language buffs delves into the past, present, and future of languages in New York City.
Geetanjali Shree, trans. by Daisy Rockwell
Rave Booklist Ma’s story takes flight with sensual beauty and utterances of wonder-filled wisdom. She journeys through the quotidian indignities of old age; she is lost, found, and hospitalized. Ma also journeys through the complicated mire of personal domestic drama. Ma’s final journey is a flight abroad. The gorgeous writing is fluid and poetic, yet it is also plain and arresting ... Readers of international literature, award-list titles, and literary fiction will cherish Shree’s written intricacies of interior worlds as well as her detailed settings that evoke a strong sense of place.
Michelle Huneven
Positive Booklist Readers will find Dana’s takes on committee microdramas, factions, and vagaries of church and friendship relatable. Food lovers will enjoy Dana’s restaurant visits and detailed food descriptions. The book’s finale is a collection of AUUC members’ signature recipes, a pleasing finish to this fresh work by award-winning novelist and food journalist Huneven.
Yuko Tsushima, trans. by Geraldine Harcourt
Positive Booklist [A] poetic, polished translation .
Isaac Fellman
Positive Booklist An imaginative work by a Lambda Award–winning author told through narrative, screenplay, texts, and emails. Lovers of fanfic, city-set fiction, and the supernatural will relish this book’s dreamlike walk on the wild side of twilight.
Kim Reed
Positive Booklist Reed’s matter-of-fact memoir features tempting sides of Italian food, fashion, and wine. Her book’s main course is not only the ride-or-die job; it’s also a meditation on approaching midlife and the need for true friendship and love.