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Avni Doshi – The First House

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.

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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)

Avni Doshi The First House

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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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

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)

Rachel Beanland The Half Life

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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Laleh Khadivi – Female Life on Planet Earth

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)

Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth

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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Michael Cunningham – Unsayable

Michael Cunningham Unsayable review and information memoir of a life in writing by the American author. HarperCollins will publish the memoir by Michael Cunningham 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 memoir titled Het onzichtbare, will be published October 30, 2026.

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  • “A luminous meditation on writing and on life, and how the two entwine, Unsayable is a memoir like no other, from one of the great writers of our time.” (Tash Aw)
  • “What a shimmering memory lane we readers get to walk down in this book, led by one of the most enchanting stylists of our time. Any moment we stretch a mind’s hand out, our fingertips meet the weightless touch of a hummingbird. Is that hummingbird Michael Cunningham’s memory or our own? It doesn’t matter. The joy is for everyone who reads with memory and imagination.” (Yiyun Li)
  • “From one of our great living masters comes a book about making sense of a life through writing. In true Cunningham fashion, it is also a book about time; how time’s passage shapes our understanding of ourselves, our desires and our capacity to articulate our experiences. I read this book in a single, astonished sitting. There are insights, and anecdotes, contained in Unsayable that I will treasure and return to for the rest of my life.” (Jordan Tanahill)
  • “Such a generous book, essential for anyone wanting to relearn the arts of curiosity and devotion.” (Miranda July)

Michael Cunningham Unsayable

Unsayable

A Life in Writing

  • Author: Michael Cunnigham (United States)
  • Book type: memoir
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • To be released: July 21, 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Sizes: 14,1 x 22,2 x 30 cm
  • Weight: 420 gram
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99
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An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side.

At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware… Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable, kicking off a lifelong love affair with language—one that would, eventually, maybe inevitably, lead him to become a writer.

In Unsayable, Cunningham’s memories spill forth, and with them, reflections on the craft of writing. He is fifteen, in a swimming pool at night, gazing at the first boy he ever fell in love with, who is lost in contemplative silence. He is a new college graduate, setting off for nowhere in a Dodge Dart, hoping to pull meaning (and a novel) from the expanse of America. He is on Cape Cod, regaling an elderly couple with invented tales of sexual escapades. He is in an art gallery, unwittingly having the first in a lifetime of conversations with the man he would marry. A thread ties each beautifully-wrought moment to the next: what is unspoken, what won’t yield to language, what is embellished beyond recognition, what is still left to say.

Luminous, perceptive and powerful, Unsayable is an ode to literature, a meditation on craft and an intimate account of a life spent trying to put into words that which resists depiction. This, it turns out, is the lifeblood of the fiction writer: the impossibility of capturing the human experience, and the relentless desire to try.

Michael Cunningham is born November 6, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City.

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Chantel Acevedo – Cages

Chantel Acevedo Cages review and information of the novel by the Cuban-American writer. Europa Editions will publish the Emily St. Chantel Acevedo novel on June 9, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Acevedo has written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century.” (Junot Diaz)

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Cages

  • Author: Chantel Acevedo (United States)
  • Book type: novel on Cuba
  • Publisher: Europa Editions
  • To be released: June 9, 2026
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 26.00 / $ 14.99
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A sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him.

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.

Cuba, 1963. Felix risks everything for an illicit love affair with a co-worker. In a society where homosexuality is branded “counterrevolutionary,” their tenderness unfolds in the shadow of danger, treachery, and political oppression. In London, Felix and his wife Anabel navigate exile and reinvention, while an aspiring actress named Claudia finds herself drawn into their orbit, her ambitions and desires colliding with Felix’s own hunger for connection.

Years later, Virgilio—Anabel’s devoted brother—recounts the disintegration of Felix’s marriage and his decision to step in and protect the family Felix abandoned. From Anabel, long silent about her complicity in the events that forced Felix’s flight from Cuba, to Rita, the daughter born out of wedlock, each vivid character gives us a different version of Felix, and the result is a dazzling mosaic of longing, deception, survival, and reconciliation.

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.

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Emeline Atwood – A Real Animal

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)

Emeline Atwood A Real Animal

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

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)

Tom Perrotta Ghost Town

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
  • Prize: $ 28.00 / $ 14,99 / $ 18.99
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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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Beverly Gage – This Is Your Land

Beverly Gage This Is Your Land review and information book and a road trip through U.S. history. Simon & Schuster will publish the Beverly Gage book on American history, April 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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This is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

  • Author: Beverly Gage (United Staters)
  • Book type: American history, travel stories
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: April 7, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
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Blurb of the Beverly Gage book on American history

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.

Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America’s greatest successes and challenges.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that proclaimed the liberty and equality of all human beings, but produced a country that often failed to agree upon—or live up to—those ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that history—to experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn it—in the places where it happened.

Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seat—or listen on audio with the windows down—and join the journey.

Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

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Giada Scodellaro – Ruins, Child

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)

Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child

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

Elizabeth Strout The Things We Never Say review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Random House will publish the new Elizabeth Strout novel on May 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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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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