Leaving by Roxana Robinson

Staff Pick

Sarah shattered Warren's heart when she broke up with him in college. The two went on to start families with others, but when they meet again forty years later in New York, they find their love is still there. Things are more complicated now, however, as the feelings of grown children take priority over their parents' happiness. Robinson's poignant story delves into aging, parenting, and the apparent diminishing of one's relevance with age, even as the ability to love and find joy remains intact.


 

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ISBN: 9781324065388
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 13th, 2024

Loot by Tania James

Staff Pick

James's Loot is one of the most engaging novels I’ve read in a long time.  It centers on Tipu’s Tiger, an actual artifact that was taken from Mysore in Southern India after the British invaded and killed Sultan Tipu.  James follows Abba, a 17-year-old woodcarver who is conscripted into service to help a French clock maker carve this figure of a life-sized tiger mauling a British man--a tiger that contains a working organ.  As Abba's life is upended during the project, the story moves across the ocean to France. James's mix of facts and fiction makes for an amazing tale.  

 

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ISBN: 9780593535974
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Published: Knopf - June 13th, 2023

Absolution by Alice McDermott

Staff Pick

This rich and beautiful novel is set in Saigon during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of American wives performing their duty as "helpmates" to their husbands--and their husbands' careers. Teeming with the cacophony of the streets. the chaos of the markets, the smells and heat of the city, the narrative focuses on Tricia, a young bride, who meets Charlene, a gorgeous mother of three, and quickly gets drawn into her orbit of charity work for local causes--some of which have not been carefully enough thought through.

 

 

 

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 31st, 2023

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