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New & Noteworthy: Contemporary Fiction

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Everything Inside: Stories
Edwidge Danticat
Reese’s book club…
“Everything Inside” by Edwidge Danticat is the August pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club. “It’s a collection of eight beautiful stories shaped by different Haitian women’s experience with love and loss. … It’s such an empowering read that taught me a lot about intricacies of Haitian culture,” Witherspoon wrote on the club’s website.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston
Antiracism reads…
Ibram X. Kendi recommended this classic to reflect on black culture in this time of tragedy. “Of course, the black body exists within a wider black culture — one Hurston portrayed with grace and insight in this seminal novel. She defies racist Americans who would standardize the cultures of white people or sanitize, eroticize, erase or assimilate those of blacks,” he wrote for the New York Times.
Cursed
Frank Miller
Book-to-screen…
A retelling of Arthurian tales with a big twist: Arthur isn’t the protagonist; instead, it follows Nimue, a young woman who wields dark magic and the sword of legend. The Netflix adaptation stars Katherine Langford (“13 Reasons Why”).
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
On the screen…
People often say it can be hard to see what’s so dystopian about “Brave New World,” and that’s probably because it’s such a sharp, cutting satire of utopian literature of yore. We look forward to seeing if the adaptation lives up to Huxley’s classic.
Patsy: A Novel
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Lambda Award winner…
Many tough choices face the titular Patsy: She decides to leave Jamaica, her daughter, and her husband looking for a better life in America and her first love, Cicely. While she boldly holds the reins of her life, it doesn’t stay on course, and she’s left trying to navigate through her desired dreams and harsher reality. One of Oprah Magazine’s top picks of 2019.
The Narrow Land
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Award winner…
“The Narrow Land” won the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Author Christine Dwyer Hickey “reaches into the guts of the marriage of Jo and Edward Hopper and into the heart of the creative impulse itself. And more, much more. Quietly, inexorably, and with pinpoint perception, our winner has brought to dramatic life not just the Hoppers’ intimate eruptions but the tensions and complexities in those around them,” the judges wrote.
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize winner…
Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition” won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It’s “a collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence,” according to the Pulitzer Prize judges.

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