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Avni Doshi – The First House

16 juli 2026 Redactie

Avni Doshi The First House review and information of the new novel by the American writer. Hamish Hamilton will publish the new and seconds Avni Doshi novel on July 16, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Avni Doshi The First House reviews and information

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“The First House dissects the tyranny of family with surgical precision, unsparing in its depiction of the delusions of marriage and motherhood – the novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the finest prose stylists at work today; every page is exhilarating.” (Katie Kitamura, author)
“Taut and deliberate, punctuated by flashes of unsettling clarity… Doshi excels at rendering the interior life in all its contradictions, allowing tenderness and irritation, longing and resentment, to coexist without resolution… She is particularly deft at capturing this sense of disorientation, where grief does not present itself cleanly but seeps into the everyday.” (The New York Times)
“Bracing, unsentimental, and beautifully written. The end days of a marriage are the beginning of a new life. In this story of rebirth, each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” (Douglas Stuart, author)

The First House

Author: Avni Doshi (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
To be released: July 16, 2026
Length: 368 pages
Format: hardback / ebook
Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the second Avni Doshi novel

A woman’s husband walks into their bedroom one evening and tells her that he wants a divorce. She is stunned. They have always had a happy marriage, an almost perfect marriage. In the following days, marooned with two young daughters in a hostile suburb, the woman starts coming apart.

As she sifts through the ruins of a shared life, she begins to notice the warning signs which she chose not to see the first time around. She wanders deep into her own mind, where marital scenes intermingle with the old myths of headless women and vengeful goddesses. Over the course of a single summer, she is splitting like an insect in its chrysalis, liquifying and reforming, stretching her new antennae toward the light.

Stiletto-sharp and darkly hypnotic, this is a novel about unhappy families – about the bloody battlefield of the home and the enduring threat posed by those closest to us.

Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982. Her debut novel, Burnt Sugar, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2021, and won the Sushila Devi Award 2021. It was named a Book of the Year by the Guardian, Economist, Spectator, New York Times Book Review and NPR and has been translated into 26 languages. Avni Doshi’s writing has appeared in British Vogue, Granta and the Sunday Times.

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Rachel Beanland – The Half Life

15 juli 2026 Redactie

Rachel Beanland The Half Life review and information of the new novel by the American writer. Simon & Schuster will publish the Rachel Beanland novel on July 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it.” (Clare Leslie Hall)
“I can’t remember the last time I was as fully immersed in a book as I was in Rachel Beanland’s forthcoming novel, The Half Life; an effortlessly readable story of a young Navy wife’s journey to a remote duty station on the island of La Maddalena in the Mediterranean, and the awakening she experiences while living there. Often funny, and always astute in its examination of the unavoidable complexities of relationships, I found it deeply moving and endlessly entertaining. I could not recommend it more highly.” (Kevin Powers, author)
“The Half Life is a sexy tour-de-force fueled by one brave young woman who breaks all the rules and wins our hearts in the process. Beanland writes a heady and complex cast of hauntingly realized characters who not only offer an outpouring of both sizzling passions and stirring regrets, but bring new life to a lesser known period of American military history in Europe.” (Lauren Francis-Sharma, author)
“Beautiful…Beanland combines an intricate plot with deep moral insights into a woman’s willingness to defy expectations for the sake of justice, and she captures the magical beauty of the island setting. It’s a propulsive tale of love, loyalty, and the power of self-discovery.” (Publishers Weekly)

The Half Life

Author: Rachel Beanland (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
To be released: July 14, 2026
Length: 480 pages
Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 29.99
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Blurb of the Rachel Beanland Novel

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.

When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen’s got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender.

In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, and as she settles into life on the island—taking Italian lessons and learning to make culurgiones—she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from.

Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. The decision to send nuclear-powered subs into the La Maddalena Archipelago was a contentious one, and the U.S. government is doing whatever it can to ensure that the island—not to mention all of Italy—doesn’t go communist in the next election.

When Italian activists and scientists begin to sound the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water, the island erupts in a series of protests, made worse by the ongoing mishaps of the U.S. Navy. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets—and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.

Atmospheric, sexy, and quietly defiant, The Half Life is a story of love, complicity, and awakening—of one woman forced to choose between loyalty to her husband and country and to the Italian locals who show her the high cost of American exceptionalism.

Rachel Beanland is the author of The House Is on Fire and Florence Adler Swims Forever, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.

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New American novels

14 juli 2026 Redactie

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

What new American novels are coming out?

This page provides an overview of new American novels and stories that are being released or will soon be available in bookstores. Besides information about the books’ content, you’ll also find information about the author, the publication, and ordering options. Published reviews of the thrillers are also included.

New American novels in 2026

The list of new novels in 2026 from American writers is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Laleh Khadivi – Female Life on Planet Earth

Iranian American novel
Publisher: Oneworld
Released: September 24, 2026
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Heti moves in a daze of grief after her mother dies, until her life is upended by the arrival of an unmarked package containing photographs of her mother as a young woman in Iran, enveloped head to toe in a black veil, pointing a machine gun at a group of sobbing young women. Unable to confront the one person she most wants answers from, she turns to the women around her, listening to their surprising, funny and often contradictory stories. Through them, she realises that every woman contains hidden lives and private truths…read on >

Colson Whitehead – Cool Machine

American novel, Harlem trilogy part 3
Publisher: Doubleday
Released: July 21, 2026
With his usual pitch-perfect prose Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth…read on >

Avni Doshi – The First House

American novel
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Released: July 16, 2026
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A woman’s husband walks into their bedroom one evening and tells her that he wants a divorce. She is stunned. They have always had a happy marriage, an almost perfect marriage. In the following days, marooned with two young daughters in a hostile suburb, the woman starts coming apart. As she sifts through the ruins of a shared life, she begins to notice the warning signs which she chose not to see the first time around. She wanders deep into her own mind, where marital scenes intermingle with the old myths of headless women and vengeful goddesses…read on >

Rachel Beanland – The Half Life

American novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: July 14, 2026
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When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen’s got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender. In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word…read on >

Emeline Atwood – A Real Animal

debut novel, road novel
Publisher: Catapult
Released: July 7, 2026
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In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas. Guided by Emeline Atwood’s lightspeed, suspenseful prose, we follow Lucy across states, jobs, relationships, and stages of intimacy with her family, witnessing both moments of horrific pain and quotidian happiness…read on >

Chantel Acevedo – Cages

novel on Cuba
Publisher: Europa Editions
Released: Jun 9, 2026
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Cages is the story of Felix—a zookeeper in Cuba during the time of the missile crisis, an exile in swinging sixties London, and finally a dying man in 1980s AIDS-era Miami. In this daring novel, Acevedo’s most personal and heartfelt to date, the fragments of Felix’s story are put together like pieces of a puzzle by one who knew him mostly as an absence. Spanning Havana, London, and Miami over a thirty-year arc, Cages explores exile, forbidden love, fractured families, the nature of truth, and the stories we tell to make sense of the people we cannot forget…read on >

Portia Elan – Homebound

coming-of-age novel, debut novel
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Released: May 7, 2026
It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. In the meantime, she has work to do: her uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete. What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across time, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew and bring them home…read on >

Elizabeth Strout – The Things We Never Say

American novel
Publisher: Random House
Released: May 5, 2026
Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation…read on >

Tom Perrotta – Ghost Town

American novel about New Jersey in the 1970s
Publisher: Scribner
Released: April 28, 2026
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Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers: one a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality; the other a smart, eccentric girl, whom Jimmy finds himself drawn to as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which may just offer the only salve to their grief…read on >

Jay McInerney – See You on the Other Side

American novel
Publisher: Knopf
Released: April 14, 2026
The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway’s best friend, Washington Lee—the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father—at the Odeon in the Spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality as the specter of the Covid-19 virus spreads…read on >

Ben Lerner – Transcription

American novel
Publisher: Granta Books
Released: April 9, 2026
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device – a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess…read on >

Giada Scodellaro – Ruins, Child

American novel, debut novel
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Released: March 26, 2026
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Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard…read on >

Victoria Shorr – Fatherland

American novel, family novel
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Released: March 10, 2026
Set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin—and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past…read on >

Rebecca Kauffman – The Reservation

American novel, restaurant novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: February 24, 2026
The Reservation explores the loves and labors of an ensemble of more than a dozen restaurant workers as they strive to get a perfect meal to the table. On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa’s erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Hers is the most august of fine-dining establishments in this Midwestern college town, and tonight Orsa is set to host a large party honoring a very special guest—a bestselling author of national renown…read on >

Lionel Shriver – A Better Life

American novel
Publisher: Harper Collins
To be released: February 10, 2026
Length: 368 pages
Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 27.99
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In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical…read on >

Gabriel Tallent – Crux

Book type: American novel
Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree
To be released: February 5, 2026
Length: 368 pages
Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 16.00
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Content: A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations. Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park, one of the world’s great rock climbing meccas. Their mothers had once been teenage waitresses and best friends until their paths diverged. Now Dan’s mother spends her days locked in her room, her dreams squandered and all her hopes pinned on getting her precociously clever son out of town and away to university…read on >

George Saunders – Vigil

American novel
Publisher: Pan macmillan
Released: January 27, 2026
Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others. For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it… isn’t it?…read on >

Jennifer Niven – Meet the Newmans

American Family Novel
Publisher: Pan macmillan
Released: January 15, 2026
Los Angeles, 1964. For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America’s Favourite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and-white versions of themselves. But now the Sixties are in full swing, and the Newmans’ perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch. Ratings are in free fall, as are the Newmans themselves…read on >

Sara Levine – The Hitch

American novel, comic novel
Publisher: Roxanne Gay Books
Released: 13 January 2026
Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When Rose offers to look after him while his parents visit Mexico for a week, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly agree, provided she understands the rules—routine, bedtime, homework—and doesn’t overstep. But when Rose’s Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, Nathan starts acting strangely…read on >

New American novels and stories 2025

The list of new novels in 2025 from American writers is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Davey Davis – Casanova 20

or, Hot World

American queer novel
Publisher: Catapult
Released: December 2, 2025
Length: 304 pages
Format: paperback / ebook
Prize: $ 17.95 / $ 12,99
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Cursed by an extreme and unrelenting beauty, Adrian has drawn the frenzied attention of adoring strangers since childhood. As a twenty-nine-year-old in New York City, he spends his days drifting between affairs with women (and occasionally men) who provide him with everything he needs, from spending money to luxurious vacations to even, once, a mini yacht. With this generosity comes a dangerous possessiveness that often puts him at risk of much worse than heartbreak. But as people begin removing their masks in the spring of 2021, Adrian’s aimless sexual availability is interrupted by a shocking discovery: He is no longer beautiful…read on >

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore – Terry Dactyl

American feminist novel
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Released: November, 11, 2025
Length: 305 pages
Format: paperback / ebook
Prize: € 15,95
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Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world…read on >

Eshani Surya – Ravishing

Debut novel
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Released: November 11, 2025
Length: 320 pages
Format: hardback / ebook
Prize: $ 28.00
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A provocative, razor-sharp novel about two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company, Ravishing is an incisive portrait of a predatory industry and its dangerous ability to capitalize on our deepest insecurities. Full of heart and vulnerability, Eshani Surya’s dazzling debut shines a light on the dark enticements of wellness culture and the ill-fated pursuit of perfection…read on >

John Irving – Queen Esther

American novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: November 6, 2025
Length: 256 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / luisterboek
Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 16.99
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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 >

Brigitte Dale – The Good Daughters

historical novel
Author: Brigitte Dale (United States)
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Released: November 4, 2025
Length: 352 pages
Format: hardcover/ ebook
Prize: $ 27.95 / $ 18.99
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A moving and vivid story of three suffragettes in London and the battle for equality that tests the strength of their will and the bonds of their friendship. In 1912, three young women from wildly different backgrounds are bound together by their desire to have a say in their future. With the dangerous stakes of the suffrage campaign becoming a fight for the women’s bodies and lives, they enter a treacherous world where the laws and justice system are stacked against them. They face violent protests, hunger strikes, and brutal forced feedings, and the women must decide how much they are willing to risk for their freedom and for each other…read on >

Aja Gabel – Lightbreakers

American novel
Publisher: Riverhead Books
To be released: November 4, 2025
Length: 332 pages
Format: paperback / ebook
Prize: $ 30.00
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Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four. When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again…read on >

Anika Jade Levy – Flat Earth

American novel, debut novel
Author: Anika Jade Levy (United States)
Publisher: Catapult
Released: November 4, 2025
Length: 224 pages
Format: hardback / ebook
Prize: € 26.00
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Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The “white-paper” she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel…read on >

Salman Rushdie – The Eleventh Hour

Stories
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 4 November 2025
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time…read on >

Gish Jen – Bad Bad Girl

autobiographical novel
Publisher: Knopf
Released: 21 October 2025
The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as immensely incisive as it is compassionate…read on >

Ha Jin – Looking for Tank Man

novel about Tiananmen Square protests
Publisher: Other Press
Released: 21 October 2025
When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the People’s Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement, and from a formative university course based on powerful firsthand accounts…read on >

Thomas McGuane – A Wooded Shore

American stories
Publisher: Knopf
Released: 14 October 2025
Nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly changing, and dreaming of a return to the wooded shores of their youth. In these nine peerless stories, a family boating trip veers into emotional disaster while very narrowly avoiding the physical; a would-be cheater hands over his car—his prized possession—for a shot with a pretty girl; a furniture magnate and his filmmaker daughter visit his impoverished hometown…read on >

Brandon Taylor – Minor Black Figures

American novel
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Released: 14 October 2025
The story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity. New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work. After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian. Over the long summer, as the two get to know each another, they talk and argue about God, sex, and art. Meanwhile, at his job working for an art restorer, Wyeth begins to investigate the life and career of a forgotten, minor black artist…read on >

Ron 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

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 >

Chris Kraus – The Four Spent the Day Together

American novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: 7 October 2025
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles,,,read on >

Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket

Milwaukee novel, crime 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

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…read on >

Catherine 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Laleh Khadivi – Female Life on Planet Earth

24 juni 2026 Redactie

Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth review and information of the novel by the Iranian American writer. Oneword will publish the new Laleh Khadivi novel on September 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“A novel about love, secrets, and the unknown depths of the people we love, Female Life on Planet Earth is intoxicating. Khadivi writes with bristling intelligence and real beauty.” (Katie Kitamura)
“As hilarious as it is profoundly moving, Laleh Khadivi’s multitudinous Female Life on Planet Earth is so very wise about love and its intimate attendant, sorrow. Powerful, startling, and marvelously vibrant.” (R.O. Kwon)
“Female Life on Planet Earth is a spellbinding fever dream. A wholly engrossing deep dive into womanhood and loss. A must-read revelation of a book.” (Jonathan Escoffery)

Female Life on Planet Earth

Author: Laleh Khadivi (United States)
Book type: novel
Publisher: Oneworld
To be released: September 24, 2026
Length: 432 pages
Format: hardback / ebook
Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 10.99
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After a lifetime together, Heti thought she knew her mother inside out. She’s about to discover how wrong she was.

Heti moves in a daze of grief after her mother dies, until her life is upended by the arrival of an unmarked package containing photographs of her mother as a young woman in Iran, enveloped head to toe in a black veil, pointing a machine gun at a group of sobbing young women.

Unable to confront the one person she most wants answers from, she turns to the women around her, listening to their surprising, funny and often contradictory stories. Through them, she realises that every woman contains hidden lives and private truths.

So when it falls to her to organise a memorial marking the first anniversary of her mother’s death, Heti gathers the women who knew her best and asks them: Who was my mother? And who are we?

Original, sparkling with wit and layered with tenderness, Female Life on Planet Earth is a celebration of womanhood.

Leleh Khadivi was born in 1977 to a Kurdish family in Esfahan, Iran. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. She resides in San Francisco, California, where she is a professor in the Writing department at University of San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, has been translated into Dutch (In de naam van de Sjah), Hebrew, and Italian.

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Colson Whitehead – Cool Machine

21 juni 2026 Redactie

Colson Whitehead Cool Machine review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Doubleday will publish the Colson Whitehead novel and final volume of his Harlem Trilogy, on July 21, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The Dutch translation of the novel with the same title will be published three weeks earlier.

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Cool Machine

Harlem trilogy part 3

Author: Colson Whitehead (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Doubleday
To be released: July 21, 2026
Length: 368 pages
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Blurb of the new Colson Whitehead novel and Harlem Shuffle part 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.

1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.

1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence—Pepper is a native speaker.

1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.

With his usual pitch-perfect prose Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.

The Dutch translation of the novel with the same title will be published three weeks earlier.

Colson Whitehead is born November 6, 1969 in New York City. He is the author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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Emeline Atwood – A Real Animal

7 juni 2026 Redactie

Emeline Atwood A Real Animal review and information of the first novel by the American writer. Catapult will publish the Emeline Atwood novel on July 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“Emeline Atwood’s debut novel stirs with edgy sex, anger, and transcendence.” (Hamilton Cain, Time)
“This is a book that is a caliber above and beyond what we have come to expect from the young-twenties-girl-bildungsroman. There’s men, yes, and sex, a lot of it, and yearning to be understood, and for power and a place in the world, but A Real Animal is about the wild, deep, feral core of those themes . . . The book has this feeling about it, like there’s so much within the pages that’s just bursting to get out: a violent and powerful urge for something, for more survival, for more agency, to express one’s pain, to feel better. A Real Animal is as raw and visceral as an open-mouthed scream: you hear it in your bones. You can see its teeth.” (Julia Hass, Literary Hub)
“Emeline Atwood’s A Real Animal is a strange and astonishing and entirely original book, full of darkness shot through with light, wild and tender. Atwood writes brilliantly about our interior, personal wildernesses, the snarling, wounded animal at the heart of any person. Lucy is an unforgettable narrator: compelling, terrifying, lovable, surprising, human. She, and this book, are extraordinary.” (Elizabeth McCracken, author)

A Real Animal

Author: Emeline Atwood (United States)
Book type: American novel, roadnovel
Publisher: Catapult
To be released: July 7, 2026
Length: 368 pages
Format: hardback / ebook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 15.99
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In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas.

A Real Animalfollows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. Lucy wants her life to be extraordinary. But this desire never seems to graft easily onto the smallness of her world. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existence—more wild, physical, animal. She moves away from home, breaks up with her long term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and starts dating a complicated, violent man.

As she changes cities, friends, and partners, there is a persistent sense of wildness in Lucy and in her world that’s only ever barely being controlled. The thrum of a nonhuman existential force in the back of her mind urges her to reject the ordinary, but also reminds her that she is alone in the world. She feels it in the depths of the ocean while deep sea diving, in the cold silences on phone calls with her sister and her mom, in the misunderstanding gaze of a man she thought would love her forever.

Guided by Emeline Atwood’s lightspeed, suspenseful prose, we follow Lucy across states, jobs, relationships, and stages of intimacy with her family, witnessing both moments of horrific pain and quotidian happiness. The years pass by seamlessly, bringing her to the edge of her twenties and back to an altered, barren version of her childhood home, where she must finally come to terms with the fear that being human itself might mean feeling alone, and wild, and unknowable.

Emeline Atwood graduated from the Michener Center for Writers in 2023. She writes fiction and poetry and is a recipient of the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, the Begley Fiction Prize, the Hatch Poetry Prize, and the Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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Tom Perrotta – Ghost Town

29 april 2026 Redactie

Tom Perrotta Ghost Town reviews and information of the content of the novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new novel by Tom Perrotta, the writer from the United States, on April 28, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“Tom Perrotta rouses the sleeping dogs of 1970s suburbia with tender complexity. Ghost Town is a time capsule dug up behind the old high school—an artifact of a family navigating loss in a nation at the crossroads.” (Tayari Jones, author)
“Ghost Town is a brilliant, evocative novel, at once a page-turning ghost story, and a deeply moving exploration of grief. Tom Perrotta’s characters are people you know instantly, and the town he’s created feels like the place you grew up. I couldn’t put it down and after finishing it, I couldn’t escape the haunting nostalgia of my own memories.” (Jess Walter, author)

Ghost Town

Author: Tom Perrotta (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Scribner
To be released: April 28, 2026
Length: 288 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
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A gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life—and the story he finally has the courage to tell.

Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers: one a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality; the other a smart, eccentric girl, whom Jimmy finds himself drawn to as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which may just offer the only salve to their grief.

As a fateful public drama unfolds, Jimmy is torn between the occult beyond and the cold realities of the place he has called home. Narrated by a much older Jimmy, a literary-turned-commercial novelist, Ghost Town reveals how the past haunts the present—the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we’ve left them behind.

Tom Perrotta was born on August 13, 1961 in Newark, New Jersey. he is is the author of eleven works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher, which were adapted into acclaimed HBO series.

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Victoria Shorr – Fatherland

10 maart 2026 Redactie

Victoria Shorr Fatherland review and informatie of the novel by the American author. W.W. Norton will publish the new Victoria Shorr novel on March 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“I’m hooked on Victoria Shorr’s gorgeous prose.” (John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, author of the song Riders on the Storm)
“Written with the same absorbing authenticity as works by Ann Napolitano, Ann Patchett, and Anne Tyler, Shorr’s compassionate rendition of divorce’s devastation depicts a wife’s betrayal, a daughter’s denial, and a husband’s selfishness with piercing accuracy.” (Booklist)

Fatherland

Author: Victoria Shorr (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: W.W. Norton
To be released: March 10, 2026
Length: 256 pages
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“I’m hooked on Victoria Shorr’s gorgeous prose.” (John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, author of the song Riders on the Storm)
“Written with the same absorbing authenticity as works by Ann Napolitano, Ann Patchett, and Anne Tyler, Shorr’s compassionate rendition of divorce’s devastation depicts a wife’s betrayal, a daughter’s denial, and a husband’s selfishness with piercing accuracy.” (Booklist)

Blurb of the new Victoria Shorr novel

A tale of the American dream on the rocks. A legacy of broken promises, deceit, and perseverance against the backdrop of family commitment.

Martin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town.

Set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin’s abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin—and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.

Written in Victoria Shorr’s inimitable clean, spare prose, Fatherland is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.

Victoria Shorr is the author of four works of fiction, including the acclaimed novel The Plum Trees, which was listed as a New York Times Recommended Historical Fiction selection for 2021. Victoria Shorr has lived in Taos, Brasil and Los Angeles, and is now back in New York. She is married to writer/film maker John Perkins, and has three children and six grandchildren.

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Giada Scodellaro – Ruins, Child

26 februari 2026 Redactie

Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child review and information about the novel by the Italian born American writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the Giada Scodellaro novel on March 26, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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“Giada Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and Ruins, Child is a visionary novel. Scodellaro refracts and redefines the canon of Black culture, the archive of Black experience. The result is a masterpiece that lives and breathes on the page, every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.” (Katie Kitamura, author of Audition)
“Ruins, Child reads like wild and textured wind, like seeds dispersed, like focus pulled then blossomed outwards, like bodies leaking, thumping, persisting, cleaving: together, then apart. This is a book of breath and people, of the precious metrics of language with all its lakes and tales that flows between and towards women. Giada Scodellaro has written fierce magic, wet earth, hot limbs; it is urgent and beautiful.” (Helen Marten, author of The Boiled in Between)

Ruins, Child

Author: Giada Scodellaro (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
To be released: March 26, 2026
Length: 176 pages
Format: paperback / ebook
Prize: £ 12.99
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Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable.

With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard.

It’s a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro’s female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.

Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Giada’s writings have appeared in the New Yorker, BOMB and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Her debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2022.

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Elizabeth Strout – The Things We Never Say

5 februari 2026 Redactie

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The Things We Never Say

Author: Elizabeth Strout (United States)
Book type: American novel
Publisher: Random House
To be released: May 5, 2026
Length: 224 pages
Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00
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Blurb of the Elizabeth Strout novel

Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world.

Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?

And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.

Elizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition—one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, The Things We Never Say takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.

Elizabeth Strout was born january 6, 1956 in Portland, Maine. She is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William!, Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me, The Burgess Boys, Olive Kitteridge, and Olive, Again. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.

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