Allen Lane
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
A nonfiction book by Matthew Desmond that uses Evicted to explore politics and low-income housing, with eviction in view.
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Solace: A Novel
Belinda McKeon
“A novel of quiet power, filled with moments of carefully told truth and real wisdom” (Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and Long Island) , about a father and son thrown together by tragedy—from the author of Tender. Set in an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift economic decline, Belinda McKeon’s Solace is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel about the conflicting values of the old and young generations and the stubborn, heartbreaking habits that mute the language of love. Tom and Mark Casey are a father and son on a collision course, two men who have always struggled to be at ease with one another. Tom is a farmer in the Irish midlands, the descendant of men who have farmed the same land for generations. Mark, his only son, is a doctoral student in Dublin, writing his dissertation on the nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth, who spent her life on her family estate, not far from the Casey farm. To his father, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark’s academic pursuit isn’t work at all. Then, at a party in Dublin, Mark meets Joanne Lynch, a lawyer in training whom he finds irresistible. She also happens to be the daughter of a man who once spectacularly wronged Mark’s father, and whose betrayal Tom has remembered every single day for twenty years. After the lightning strike of tragedy, Tom and Mark are left with grief neither can share or fully acknowledge. Not even the magnitude of their mutual loss can alter the habit of silence. “A story told with clear-eyed compassion and quiet intelligence about what it is to grow up and grow away, about the difference between ‘here’ and ‘home.’ This is a lovely debut” (Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering ).
Knopf
Green Island: A novel
Shawna Yang Ryan
A biography by Shawna Yang Ryan that uses Green Island to explore social conditions and politics, with social life and customs in view.
Tor.com
The Ballad Of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle
One of NPR 's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? "LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do." -- Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction." -- Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days "LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft's Dagon... [ The Ballad of Black Tom ] has a satisfying slingshot ending." - Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Wallflowers
Eliza Robertson
A brother and sister train side by side for a race, then a loss sends them onto different paths. Set against northern landscapes and bodily exertion, the story quietly brings forward the distance that can open inside intimacy.
William Morrow Paperbacks
Private Citizens: A Novel
Tony Tulathimutte
A novel about Stanford graduates whose friendships and ambitions reveal the anxieties and absurdities of millennial life.
Sort of Books
Ice
Ulla-Lena Lundberg, Thomas Teal
Set in the Finnish archipelago after the Second World War, the novel follows a newly appointed priest and his family as they settle into island life. The hard landscape and the details of daily work accumulate into a quiet intimacy that gives the story its weight.
Philomel Books
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
第二次世界大戦末期、複数の若者の視点を交互に描く歴史小説。戦火を逃れる難民の旅路と秘密、罪と生存の葛藤を追い、最終的に史上大規模な海難事故（MS Wilhelm Gustloffの沈没）につながる悲劇を描く。
Carcanet Pr
Measures of Expatriation
Vahni Capildeo
A poetry collection that expands on the difficulty of movement and belonging through experimental poems and prose poems. The instability of language mirrors the uncertainty of identity.
Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
Beverly
Nick Drnaso
Nick Drnaso's Beverly is a graphic novel that quietly follows awkward conversations and unease among young people in the suburbs. As fragments of everyday life drift out of alignment, suppressed emotion and the threat of violence slowly surface.
早川書房
デューン 砂の惑星〔新訳版〕 (上) (ハヤカワ文庫SF)
フランク ハーバート, 酒井 昭伸
A science-fiction epic set on the desert planet Arrakis, following Paul Atreides and the politics of empire. In a world where religion, resources, and power are inseparable, a coming-of-age story turns into a vast myth.
Alice James Books
Thief in the Interior
Phillip B. Williams
A poetry collection that confronts desire, violence, racism, and homophobia with urban pressure and force.