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The Best Books of 2018 by The New Yorker

The Best Books of 2018 by The New Yorker

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Title: Asymmetry

Alice, a young American editor living in New York, is in a relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer.
Author(s): Lisa Halliday
ISBN 13: 9781501166761
Pages: 288
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Title: Confessions of the Fox: A Novel

A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • HuffPost • Kirkus Reviews • Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.
Author(s): Jordy Rosenberg
ISBN 13: 9780399592270
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Title: Ordinary People

But as bonds fray, the lines once clearly marked by wedding bands aren't so simply defined. Ordinary People is a moving examination of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, and the fragile architecture of love.
Author(s): Diana Evans
ISBN 13: 9781631494819
Pages: 320
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Title: Small Fry

Praise for Small Fry "An intimate, richly drawn portrait.
Author(s): Lisa Brennan-Jobs
ISBN 13: 9780802128232
Pages: 400
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Title: Convenience Store Woman

In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction--many are laid out line by line in the store's manual--and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, andspeech of her colleagues, playing the part of ...
Author(s): Sayaka Murata
ISBN 13: 9780802128256
Pages: 176
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Title: Florida

In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.
Author(s): Lauren Groff
ISBN 13: 9781594634512
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Title: Kudos

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Author(s): Rachel Cusk
ISBN 13: 9780374279868
Pages: 240
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Title: Freshwater

An extraordinary debut novel exploring the metaphysics of identity and mental health, centering on a young Nigerian woman as she struggles to reconcile the proliferation of multiple selves within her
Author(s): Akwaeke Emezi
ISBN 13: 9780802127358
Pages: 240
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Title: Immigrant, Montana

"The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot now gives us a remarkable novel--reminiscent of Teju Cole, W.G. Sebald, John Berger--about a young new immigrant to the U.S. in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, ...
Author(s): Amitava Kumar
ISBN 13: 9780525520757
Pages: 320
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