Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse schrijfster

Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman

C. Mallon – Dogs

C. Mallon Dogs review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de debuutroman van C. Mallon, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige auteur. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

C. Mallon Dogs review en recensie

  • “C. Mallon’s work is equal parts scouring and clarifying, the kind of writing that exposes the wounds in order to irrigate them. Her characters are constitutionally unable to overlook the dirt and mess and pain of the world, yet haunted by the instinct that everything might have been some other way—on another planet, maybe, or in another life. Impairment, here, is a form of passion; transgression, a form of sanctitude.” (Kevin Brockmeier)
  • “A tour de force, both heartful and heartbreaking, C. Mallon’s Dogs is a raw, beautiful excavation of the wounds blown open by the betrayal of life’s most sacred relationships.” (Daniel Magariel)

C. Mallon Dogs

Dogs

  • Auteur: C. Mallon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 12,99 / $ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van C. Mallon

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.

As night falls on the city of Carbon, Hal and his friends are cruising the backroads in their terrible car. From the wrestling gym to the gas station, from his mom’s kitchen to the mall parking lot, Hal bears quiet witness to the beauty and the horror he perceives in the slow, lonely world of his hometown.

Withdrawn and reticent, Hal is haunted by the specter of violence. Safety and comfort are hard won in Carbon, a town dogged by stories of desperation and brutality, and his own home is a dark vault of troubled and unspoken memory. Hal’s greatest peace is found in the company of his dearest friend, Cody John, whose true compassion offers him a window to a better life.

Over the course of a single night, a catastrophic chain of events is set into motion. Its devastating conclusion will explode the fragile balance that once kept the boys together. Unflinching, resolute, and beautifully rendered, Dogs is a stunning exploration of trauma, real love, and the limit of our ability to reach one another.

C. Mallon is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Dogs is her debut novel.

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Princess Joy L. Perry – This Here Is Love

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company de debuutroman van Princess Joy L. Perry, de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love review en recensie

  • “It’s hard to believe that this is Perry’s first novel, so effectively does it pull readers deep into the lives of its evolving, powerful, multifaceted characters.” (Library Journal)
  • “In This Here Is Love, Princess Joy L. Perry refuses to shy away from the cruelties of surviving the realities of seventeenth-century America and has charted the terrible truths of her characters’ impossible choices—even as they map a journey toward their own freedom, their futures, their shared humanity. In these pages, we have love rooted and rebuilt in the land that stripped these compelling characters of almost all they have, and a blueprint for how hope may still move us forward.” (DéLana R. A. Dameron)
  • “A luscious storyteller, Perry brings to light the profound moral and emotional dilemmas her characters face, making the reader feel the weight of their impossible choices and everyday courage. A fierce and luminous debut.” (Sheri Reynolds)

Princess Joy L. Perry This Here Is Love

This Here Is Love

  • Auteur: Princess Joy L. Perry (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 5 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs:  $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Princess Joy L. Perry

As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America’s character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.

Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She stands as the lone bulwark between her mother and irreparable despair, her mother’s only possibility of hope, as Bless reshapes the boundaries of love.

David is a helping child and a solace to his parents, and he gave a purpose to their trials. His survival hinges on his mother’s shrewd intellect and ferocious fight, but his sustenance is his freed Black father’s dream of emancipation for the entire family.

Jack Dane, a Scots-Irish boy, sails to Britain’s colonies when his father sells him into indentured servitude as an escape from poverty. There Jack learns from the rich the value of each person’s life.

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. David, sold away from his people, retreats into himself even as he yearns to unite with others. Jack, acting impetuously, changes his fortune, but will doing so sacrifice his humanity?

All three come together on Jack’s land. As they face and challenge each other, they will relinquish and remake beliefs about family and freedom, even as they confront the limits of love.

Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About Skin, African American Review, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Susan Choi – Flashlight

Susan Choi Flashlight review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 10 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Susan Choi die gekozen is op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Susan Choi Flashlight review en recensie

  • “Flashlight is a sprawling novel that weaves stories of national upheavals with those of Louisa, her Korean Japanese father, Serk, and Anne, her American mother. Evolving from the uncertainties surrounding Serk’s disappearance, it is a riveting exploration of identity, hidden truths, race, and national belonging. In this ambitious book that deftly criss-crosses continents and decades, Susan Choi balances historical tensions and intimate dramas with remarkable elegance. We admired the shifts and layers of Flashlight’s narrative, which ultimately reveal a story that is intricate, surprising, and profound.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “Choi is one of contemporary literature’s great demolition artists, and her emotional foundations hold. She can build as well as she detonates. Choi gives her cast the room they need to live; to be more than vessels for political wrangling… Like the best of those early-00s novels, Flashlight is all kinds of big: capacious of intent and scope and language and swagger.” (Beejay Silcox, Guardian)
  • “Flashlight is severely allergic to summary, so watch what you read about it. Even categorizing this story as a mystery risks prematurely exposing the novel’s intricate structure to too much light. It’s catholic in its genre, shifting deftly from domestic drama to international thriller, from academic satire to bildungsroman. But what can be safely revealed is that Choi is writing about people who struggle and fail to find a stable sense of identity in a shifting world conspiring against them.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)

Susan Choi Flashlight

Flashlight

  • Auteur: Susan Choi (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 10 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schijfster Susan Choi

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.

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.

Susan Choi was born on 28 januari 1969 in South Bend, Indiana in the United States. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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Katie Kitamura – Audition

Katie Kitamura Audition review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 17 april 2025 verschijnt bij Fern Press de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Katie Kitamura die gekozen is op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Katie Kitamura Audition review en recensie

  • “This novel begins with an actress meeting a young man in a Manhattan restaurant. A surprising, unsettling conversation unfolds, but far more radical disturbances are to come. Aside from the extraordinarily honed quality of its sentences, the remarkable thing about Audition is the way it persists in the mind after reading, like a knot that feels tantalisingly close to coming free. Denying us the resolution we instinctively crave from stories, Kitamura takes Chekhov’s dictum – that the job of the writer is to ask questions, not answer them – and runs with it, presenting a puzzle, the solution to which is undoubtedly obscure, and might not even exist at all.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
  • “In her depictions of how an unexpected turn of phrase, awkward silence, unbidden distraction or shift in body language can change the weather in a room, Kitamura is unparalleled.” (Arin Keeble, Financial Times)
  • “Kitamura’s prose is remarkable for its minimalist quality, characterized by brief, declaratory observations and acute psychological insights… While rich in ideas, Audition fails to match the drama of Kitamura’s previous novel, Intimacies (2021) … But Audition is more formally daring, and the writing is as distinctive as ever in its concision and intelligence.” (Ellen Wiles, Times Literary Supplement)

Katie Kitamura Audition

Audition

  • Auteur: Katie Kitamura (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fern Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 april 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 18,99
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2025
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Katie Kitamura

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

Katie Kitamura was born in 1979 in Sacramento, California. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian,  Granta, frieze and others. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

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Jean Stafford – The Mountain Lion

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1947. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster Jean Stafford. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion review en recensie

  • “It’s the story of a pair of siblings, 8-year-old Molly and 10-year-old Ralph, and the summers they spend on their uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Stafford treats both natural landscapes and the inner worlds of childhood with extraordinary reverence, as sites of perilous mystery. In her portrayal of Ralph, she writes the single greatest account I know of an adolescent boy coming into his sexuality, a terrifying discovery that alienates him from himself and others.” (Garth Greenwell, The Atlantic)
  • “One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.” (Lauren Groff)
  • “One of the best novels about adolescence in American literature.” (Hilton Als, New York Times)

Jean Stafford The Mountain Lion

The Mountain Lion

  • Auteur: Jean Stafford (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1947
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: ‎ Faber and Faber
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Jean Stafford

Ralph and Molly are inseparable siblings: united against the stupidity of daily routines, their prim mother and prissy older sisters, the world of adult authority. One summer, they are sent from their childhood home in suburban Los Angeles to their uncle’s Colorado mountain ranch, where they write, hunt, roam. But this untamed wilderness soon becomes tainted by dark stirrings of sexual desire – and as the pressures of growing up drive an irrevocable rift between them, their innocent childhoods hurtle towards a devastating end.

Jean Stafford was born on 1 July 1915 in Covina, California. She was an American short story writer and novelist. In 1970 she received The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford Novel from 1947 first editionthe Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. In 1940 she published her first novel Boston Adventure, followed in 1947 with The Mountain Lion. Het third and last novel The Catherine Wheel was published in 1952. She died on 26 March 1979 in White Plains, New York, at the age of 63 of a heart attack. In the years before she suffered from alcoholism, depression, and pulmonary disease.

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Katie Yee – Maggie

Katie Yee Maggie review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij S&S/Summit Books de debuutroman van Katie Yee, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Katie Yee Maggie review en recensie

  • “Feels pleasurably like clicking through the back archives of a webcomic or lingering over lunch wine with an old friend. As with Nora Ephron’s Heartburn…you read Maggie to spend time with its author.” (Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post)
  • “Through impeccably witty fragmented reflections and in just under 200 pages, Yee transforms life’s most brutal bombshells into spectacular fireworks, glittering with humor, insight, and a dazzling display of best friendship against the darkest of backdrops.” (Charley Burlock, Oprah Daily)
  • “In this comedic and heartbreaking debut novel, the narrator confronts her grief head-on, from naming the growing tumor inside of her Maggie to developing a user manual guide for her ex’s new woman.” (Harper’s Bazaar)

Katie Yee Maggie

Maggie

or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

  • Auteur: Katie Yee (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: S&S/Summit Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 12,99 / $ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Katie Yee

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.

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie.

A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.

Unfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor), getting acquainted with her body’s new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a “Guide to My Husband: A User’s Manual” for Maggie (the other woman), hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husband’s whims and quirks. She turns her children’s bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture—and to maybe save herself in the process.

In the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephron’s hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.

Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, The Believer, the Washington Square Review, Triangle House, Epiphany, and Literary Hub. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog, Ollie.

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Jessa Maxwell – Dead of Summer

Jessa Maxwell Dead of Summer review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse thriller die zich afspeelt in New England. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books de thriller van Jessa Maxwell, de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jessa Maxwell Dead of Summer review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Dead of Summer, de nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Jessa Maxwell, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Jessa Maxwell Dead of Summer

Dead of Summer

  • Auteur: Jessa Maxwell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller, New England thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 27,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van Jessa Maxwell thriller

Years after her best friend mysteriously disappeared from a remote New England island, a young woman returns in search of answers in this atmospheric and scintillating thriller from Jessa Maxwell.

Orla O’Connor hasn’t been to the isolated New England enclave of Hadley Island since she graduated from high school a decade ago. As a teenager, her best friend Alice disappeared from its shores without a trace—but with plenty of rumors.

Now, Orla returns to her family’s beachfront home to clean it out before her parents sell it. The island and her best friend’s house next door, abandoned after her family left in grief, are stirring up memories she would like to avoid. Then there are the locals, always gossiping and watching Orla’s every move. Worst of all, David, Orla’s childhood crush and son of a wealthy Manhattan family, is back for the summer with his new, impossibly pretty girlfriend, Faith.

Faith suspects that David is going to propose but as soon as she settles into his family’s sprawling Hadley Island estate, she feels out of place. She anticipated a luxurious summer of fun and romance, but David is never around—lured into business conversations with his entrepreneur father from dawn to dusk. With nothing else to do, Faith begins to investigate the island’s dark past, curious about what really happened to Alice all those years ago.

Meanwhile, local Henry hasn’t left his house since the young girl went missing, in an attempt to let the accusations against him die down. Except they never have. For years, Henry has had an endless supply of time to pursue his only hobby, watching the island from his telescope and recording the activities of its inhabitants. But Orla’s return has shaken him and lately he’s been seeing strange things: shadowy figures walking on the beach in the middle of the night and a light on in the upstairs window of the long-abandoned house of the missing girl.

When there’s another disappearance on the island, all three find themselves pulled into an eerie and twisty mystery that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Jessa Maxwell is the nationally bestselling author of The Golden Spoon (vertaald als De gouden lepel), I Need You to Read This, and Dead of Summer. She is also the author and illustrator of five picture books for children. Her comics and cartoons have been published in The New Yorker and The New York Times and her writing has been published in Slate, Marie Claire, and many others. She now lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island, with her husband, two cats and three-legged dog.

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Ivonne Lamazares – The Tilting House

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House review, recensie en informatie roman van de op Cuba geboren Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de nieuwe roman van de Cubaans-Amerikaanse schrijfster Ivonne Lamazares. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House review en recensie

  • “Filled with the complexity of history and the immigrant experience, The Tilting House is a globetrotting drama that explores the limits of family loyalty.” (Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books)
  • “The Tilting House is a lyrical, haunting exploration of exile and belonging, memory and betrayal, and the inescapable pull of family and legacy. Against the backdrop of a Cuba still reckoning with the upheaval of revolution, Ivonne Lamazares crafts a story of love and loss, following the unforgettable Yuri—a young woman caught between the ghosts of history and the promise of an uncertain future. With exquisite prose and unflinching insight, The Tilting House introduces a cast of exiles and dreamers, survivors and schemers, artists and agitators, all bound by the weight of the past and the search for home in a world forever shaped by destiny.” (Alex Espinoza)

Ivonne Lamazares The Tilting House

The Tilting House

  • Auteur: Ivonne Lamazares (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Cuba roman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpont Press
  • Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Cuba van Ivonne Lamazares

Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of political upheaval.

In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, is living with her strict, religious aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty-four-year-old artist, arrives from the United States with a shocking revelation. She claims to be Yuri’s sister, insisting that she and Yuri share a mother, and that Ruth essentially kidnapped her when she sent her into exile against her will through Operation Pedro Pan. Forced to grow up in orphanages, Mariela spent the past three decades in the United States and has returned to Cuba to reclaim her roots, make art, and perhaps seek vengeance on Ruth. Yuri is both fascinated and repulsed by the young, glamorous, and aggrieved Mariela. When Ruth is jailed for unknown charges, Yuri falls further into Mariela’s mercurial orbit.

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.

Ivonne Lamazares was born in Havana. She left Cuba at the age of thirteen and settled in Florida. Her first novel, The Sugar Island, was translated into seven languages. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Latina magazine, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. Lamazares is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. She lives in Miami and teaches writing at Miami Dade College.

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Darby Kane – Wat de echtgenote weet

Darby Kane Wat de echtgenote weet recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 19 november 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Volt de Nederlandse vertaling van What the Wife Knew van Darby Kane, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige thrillerschrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Darby Kane Wat de echtgenote weet recensie en review

  • “Fans van duistere, huiselijke thrillers zullen veel waardering hebben voor deze verwarrende roman over een vrouw die onmiddellijk wordt verdacht van moord wanneer haar geliefde echtgenoot, een kinderchirurg, overlijdt na een lelijke val van de trap.” (Seattle Times)
  • “Een doordachte, psychologische thriller voor bingelezers en perfect is voor fans van Camilla Läckberg.” (Booklist)

Darby Kane Wat de echtgenote weet

Wat de echtgenote weet

  • Auteur: Darby Kane (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Origineel: What the Wife Knew (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Betty Klaasse, Yvonne de Swart
  • Uitgever: Uitgeverij Volt
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 20,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe thriller van Darby Kane

Haar wraak op haar man was bijna compleet.
Maar nu heeft iemand anders hem vermoord.

Dr. Richmond Dougherty was een heel beroemde kinderchirurg en nationale held. En nu is hij ook heel dood, door een val van de trap. Er werd eerst uitgegaan van een ongeluk, maar er zijn aanwijzingen dat hij met iets is geslagen voor hij viel. Moord dus. En iedereen verdenkt mij, zijn jonge, kersverse echtgenote.

Ik kan het ze niet echt kwalijk nemen: in de paar maanden dat hij met mij getrouwd was, had hij al twee eerdere verdachte ‘ongelukken’ gehad en nu erf ik zijn aanzienlijke vermogen. Bovendien zitten ze er niet ver naast: ik wenste hem absoluut dood. Alleen niet voordat mijn missie om wraak te nemen volbracht was. Maar goed, ik ben niet iemand die zomaar opgeeft. Mijn plan om met Richmond te trouwen en hem dan te ruïneren is misschien ontspoord door zijn onverwachte dood, maar ik ben nog niet klaar met hem.

Darby Kane is het pseudoniem van HelenKay Dimon die is geboren in 1967 een voormalig advocate is. Tegenwoordig is ze een bekroond auteur van romantische boeken. Haar thrillerdebuut De perfecte echtgenote werd meteen een internationale bestseller en ook haar volgende boeken werden lovend ontvangen.

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Joyce Maynard – How the Light Gets In

Joyce Maynard How the Light Gets In review, recensie en informatie roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij William Morrow de nieuwe roman van Joyce Mayard, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Joyce Maynard How the Light Gets In review en recensie

  • “If ever we needed a novel capable of healing our troubled, world-weary souls, that time is now. But where, oh where, is the book? Actually, it has arrived: Joyce Maynard’s new novel, How the Light Gets In. And what a gift it is.” (Richard Russo)
  • “In How the Light Gets In, Joyce Maynard casts her clear eye over all we have endured thus far in our still-young century, illustrating as she does just how we have endured it: through bumbling luck and enduring love, hope, persistence, the consolations of nature, the comfort of daily work. A novel that understands how grace accrues over time in families, making the past bearable, the future possible. A wise and lovely book.” (Alice McDermott)
  • “Joyce Maynard has stitched together a warm, rich patchwork quilt of a novel that reminds us history is made up simply of our stories; and that even in broken, imperfect things one finds beauty and strength.” (Jodi Picoult)

Joyce Maynard How the Light Gets In

How the Light Gets In

  • Auteur: Joyce Maynard (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Morrow & Company
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 10.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Joyce Maynard

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby’s older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.

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).

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