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Ron Rindo – Life, and Death, and Giants

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review and information of the content of the new book by the American author. St. Martin’s Press will publish the new Ron Rindo novel, on october, 2025. 

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review

  • “Life, and Death, and Giants is an intriguing and alluring novel from beginning to end. The events are startling, sad, amusing, invigorating, and informative. Reading it is like meeting a family that you never knew existed and becoming close friends in a few weeks. Highly recommended.” (Jane Smiley)
  • “A rare novel … Unbearably moving, yet hopeful and transcendent in all the best ways. Just read it. Lose yourself in it. Be changed by it.” (Jennie Godfrey)
  • “A small-town novel as magical and moral as a tall tale.” (Stewart O’Nan)

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants

Life, and Death, and Giants

  • Author: Ron Rindo (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
  • To be released: 11 October 2025
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
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  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by Ron Rindo

A remarkable child transforms a small rural community – and, soon, the world.

In Lakota, Wisconsin, a young, unmarried Amish woman births a miraculous, eighteen-pound baby, and no one in the community knows what to make of the boy.

Raised by his brother on a struggling farm, Gabriel Fisher walks at eight months, communicates with animals and possesses astonishing athletic abilities. When his brother dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout grandparents and, for a time, he disappears into the anonymity of Amish life.

But then, aged seventeen and nearly eight feet tall, Gabriel is spotted working in a hayfield by the local football coach and his life changes for ever.

In Life, and Death, and Giants, Gabriel’s extraordinary, timeless story is told by those whose lives are transformed by him: the veterinarian who delivers him and becomes his mentor; his grandmother, who is troubled by a deep void in her faith; the salty bar owner who acts as a bridge between the Amish and English communities in Lakota; and the football coach who tries to counsel Gabriel as his fame explodes, with consequences that no one could have anticipated.

Ron Rindo is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He has published one previous novel, Breathing Lake Superior, and three short story collections. He lives in Pickett, Wisconsin.

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New American novels

New American novels. What new novels  from American writers are coming out? Who is the author of the new novel from the United States? When will the book be released and by which publisher? Who is the author of the novel?

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New American novels in 2025

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John Irving Queen Esther novel reviewJohn Irving – Queen Esther
American novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: 6 November 2025
Dutch translation: Queen Esther
John Irving’s sixteenth novel is a testament to his enduring ability to weave complex characters and intricate narratives that challenge and captivate. Queen Esther is not just a story of survival but a profound exploration of identity, belonging, and the enduring impact of history on our personal lives showcasing why Irving remains one of the world’s most beloved, provocative, and entertaining authors—a storyteller of our time and for all time…read on >

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants reviewRon Rindo – Life, and Death, and Giants
American novel, Wisconsin novel
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Released: 11 October 2025
In Life, and Death, and Giants, Gabriel’s extraordinary, timeless story is told by those whose lives are transformed by him: the veterinarian who delivers him and becomes his mentor; his grandmother, who is troubled by a deep void in her faith; the salty bar owner who acts as a bridge between the Amish and English communities in Lakota; and the football coach who tries to counsel Gabriel as his fame explodes, with consequences that no one could have anticipated…read on >

Shannon Bowring In a Distant Valley reviewShannon Bowring – In a Distant Valley
Maine novel, winter novel
Publisher: Europa Editions
Released: 8 October 2025
Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine…read on >

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket reviewThomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket
Milwaukee novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 7 October 2025
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering…read on >

Jerome Charyn Maria La Divina reviewJerome Charyn – Maria La Divina
biographical of opera singer Maria Callas
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Released: 16 September 2025
Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality…lees verder >

Catherine Dang What Hunger reviewCatherine Dang – What Hunger
American novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: 12 August 2025
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood…read on >

Nick Fuller Googins The Frequency of Living Things reviewNick Fuller Googins – The Frequency of Living Things
Family novel
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: 12 August 2025
A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness…read on >

C. Mallon Dogs reviewC. Mallon – Dogs
debut novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: 12 August 2025
A singular, devastating debut novel, Dogs traces the fallout of one catastrophic night in the lives of five high school wrestlers, asking what can survive in the blast radius of latent trauma and violence…read on >

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love reviewPrincess Joy L. Perry – This Here Is Love
debut novel
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Released: 5 August 2025
A breathtaking, haunting, and epic saga, This Here Is Love intimately intertwines us with these beautifully drawn, unforgettable American characters. Bless, taken to serve the slaveowner’s daughter, must decide where she belongs: with the enslaved or above them…read on >

Victor Suthammanont Hollow Spaces reviewVictor Suthammanont – Hollow Spaces
American novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: 5 August 2025
The only Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family…read on >

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House reviewIvonne Lamazares – The Tilting House
Cuba novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: 22 July 2025
Spanning two countries and three decades, The Tilting House explores identity and family loyalty, the effects of losing one’s mother and motherland, the scars of political and historical upheaval, and an immigrant’s complex quest both to return “home” and to be free from the past. Through her long journey, Yuri comes to understand that the past cannot be fully recovered, or fully escaped, even as she approaches the possibility of compassion for Mariela, for Ruth, for others, and for herself…lees verder >

Katie Yee Maggie reviewKatie Yee – Maggie
or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
debut novel
Publisher: S&S/Summit Books
Released: 22 July 2025
A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel that grapples with grief, motherhood, and myths…read on >

Joyce Maynard How the Light Gets In reviewJoyce Maynard – How the Light Gets In
American novel
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Released: 17 July 2025
How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast)…read on >

Susan Choi Flashlight reviewSusan Choi – Flashlight
American novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 10 July 2025
Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime…read on >

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John Irving – Queen Esther Novel

John Irving Queen Esther Novel review and information of the content of the new book by the American author. Simon & Schuster will publish the new John Irving novel, on November 6, 2025. The Dutch translation of the novel is also titled Queen Esther, 

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John Irving Queen Esther novel

Queen Esther

  • Author: John Irving (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: 6 November 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 16.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by John Irving

After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award–winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.

Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won’t find any family who’ll adopt her.

When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren’t Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther’s gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows. In the final chapter, set in Jerusalem in 1981, Esther Nacht is seventy-six.

John Irving’s sixteenth novel is a testament to his enduring ability to weave complex characters and intricate narratives that challenge and captivate. Queen Esther is not just a story of survival but a profound exploration of identity, belonging, and the enduring impact of history on our personal lives showcasing why Irving remains one of the world’s most beloved, provocative, and entertaining authors—a storyteller of our time and for all time.

The Dutch translation of the novel is also titled Queen Esther, and wil be published on November 4, 2025.

John Irving was born on 2 March 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

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