Fiction
The Dark Flood Rises Margaret Drabble PB $ 29.99 Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death . Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends , dropping off suppers for Claude , her ex-husband , warm and cosy in his infirmity . She visits her daughter , holed up as the waters rise , and texts her son as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend . In her new book , Margaret Drabble explores the end of life with her trademark humour , composure and wisdom .
Here I Am Jonathan Safran Foer PB $ 32.99 Over the course of three weeks in Washington DC , three sons watch their parents ' marriage falter and their family home fall apart . Meanwhile , a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world : a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East , sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel . With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground , Jonathan Safran Foer asks us — what is the true meaning of home ?
The Mothers Brit Bennett PB $ 32.99 Nadia Turner is a rebellious , griefstricken , seventeen-year-old beauty . Luke Sheppard is twenty-one , a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner . They are young ; it ’ s not serious . But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth . In entrancing , lyrical prose , The Mothers asks whether a “ what if ” can be more powerful than an experience itself .
All That Man Is David Szalay PB $ 32.99 Nine men . Each of them at a different stage of life , each of them away from home , and each of them striving to understand just what it means to be alive , here and now . All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are — ludicrous and inarticulate , shocking and despicable ; vital , hilarious , and full of longing . And as the years chase them down , the stakes become high in this portrayal of 21st-century manhood .
The Nix Nathan Hill PB $ 29.99 Samuel is a stalled writer who hasn ' t seen his mother in decades . Now she has reappeared , having committed a crime that electrifies the nightly news . As Samuel begins to investigate , the story moves from the Midwest of the 1960s , to New York City during the recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement , and back to the 1968 Chicago riots . Samuel will have to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother — a woman with an epic story of her own .
Today Will Be Different Maria Semple PB $ 32.99 Eleanor Flood is going to clean up her act , only change into yoga clothes for yoga , which today she will actually attend , and be a better version of herself . But then , as it always does , life happens . With all the artistic madness , genius plotting , and bold social observation that made Where ’ d You Go , Bernadette a hit , Today Will Be Different is a hilarious and heart filled day-in-the-life romp filtered through Maria Semple ' s brilliant eyes .