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| Flashlight by Susan ChoiFlashlight follows American Louisa Kang and her family across locations and years, but focuses on the night young Louisa and her ethnically Korean father walk on a beach in Japan. Later, she washes ashore, amnesiac and clinging to life, but her dad can't be found. Covering family relationships and geopolitics, this slow burn novel is "never sentimental, never predictable" (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: Kyung-Sook Shin's I Went to See My Father. Also available on Libby |
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| The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie HartnettPJ Halliday is a 63-year-old hoarder who drinks too much. When he learns his old high school girlfriend is newly single, he sets out on a cross-country road trip from Massachusetts to Arizona, bringing along his newly orphaned grandniece and grandnephew, his 26-year-old daughter, and Pancakes, a death-predicting cat. Funny and bittersweet, this novel works for fans of Steven Rowley's The Guncle and Kevin Wilson's Run for the Hills. |
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| Big Chief by Jon HickeyHaving moved around a lot, 30-year-old lawyer Mitch Caddo is an outsider at his Wisconsin reservation. But with his old friend Mack up for reelection as tribal president, political fixer Mitch works hard to defeat a nationally known activist, whose young aide is Mack's sister and Mitch's old flame. Jon Hickey, a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, debuts with a timely, thought-provoking novel. For fans of: David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts. Also available on Libby |
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| Awake in the Floating City by Susanna KwanIn a flooded near-future San Francisco, grieving artist Bo lives in a high rise and hopes for the return of her mother, missing for two years. On the verge of finally leaving the city, she instead stays to help her 130-year-old neighbor, whose stories inspire Bo's creativity. Exploring grief, art, memory, climate change, and multi-generational friendships, this is a "marvelously graceful debut" (Kirkus Reviews). Read-alike: Eiren Caffall's All the Water in the World. Also available on Libby |
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| So Far Gone by Jess WalterIn a divided 2016 America, retired Rhys Kinnick decks his son-in-law Shane at Thanksgiving and then goes off-grid in Washington State. A few years later, his grandkids show up, brought by a neighbor at the request of Rhys' daughter. But then Shane sends members of his church militia after the kids, leading Rhys to team up with an eccentric group of old friends. Read-alike: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem. Also available on Libby |
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