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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
In a near future where the Risk Assessment Administration uses data to prevent future crimes, Sara Hussein is arrested after a dream-analysis algorithm indicates she'll harm her husband. Held at a retention center, she's losing hope she'll ever be freed when a newcomer upends everything.
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Counting Backwards
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Leo, a New York City medical researcher and professor, is diagnosed with Lewy body dementia at 53, shattering his world and leaving his artist wife Addie to balance caregiving, work, grief, and her own mental health. Told primarily in second person by Addie, this darkly funny novel examines marriage, memory, loss, and loneliness.
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Tilt
by Emma Pattee
When a devastating earthquake hits Portland, 37-weeks-pregnant Annie is shopping for an IKEA crib. Amidst the destruction, she walks toward downtown while talking to her unborn child about the present (the chaos, money troubles) and the past (her playwriting dreams).
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Sister Europe
by Nell Zink
Various guests—including an art critic, his 15-year-old trans daughter, a disaffected prince, a German socialite, a publisher originally from Texas, and his online date—attend a formal dinner celebrating an acclaimed author in Berlin, where events culminate in a late night adventure.
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Audition
by Katie Kitamura
In a Manhattan restaurant, a celebrated middle-aged actress working on a new Broadway play meets a mysterious young man for lunch. But who are they to each other and what does their relationship mean for their futures? Presented in two disorienting parts, this sparsely written unconventional novel defies reader expectations.
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The Blanket Cats
by Kiyoshi Shigematsu; translated by Jesse Kirkwood
In a mysterious Tokyo shop, cats with special blankets are available for three-day rentals. Struggling people, some of whom aren't always easy to like, take cats home in these seven thought-provoking and open-ended stories, which provide an intriguing look at transitional times.
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I Leave It Up to You
by Jinwoo Chong
After 23 months in a coma, 30-year-old Jack Jr. awakens to a world where COVID exists, yet his fiancé, New York apartment, and advertising job are gone. Returning to Fort Lee, New Jersey, he works at his Korean American parents' sushi restaurant, spars with his brother, spends time with his nephew, and reconnects with his male nurse.
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Hula
by Jasmin `Iolani Hakes
A young daughter of the legendary Hawaiian Naupaka dynasty dreams of healing the rift in her family by competing in and winning the next Miss Aloha Hula contest and proving herself worthy of carrying on her family's name.
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Joan is Okay
by Weike Wang
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she's encountered before.
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A Thousand Times Before
by Asha Thanki
This gripping family narrative spanning from the era of partition in India to contemporary Brooklyn follows the lives of three generations of women united by the echoes of their predecessors' experiences.
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Build Your House Around My Body
by Violet Kupersmith
The fate of an unhappy woman who disappears in 2011 while living in Saigon is entwined with a teenager who gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation in 1986 and a woman who captures a two-headed cobra in 2009.
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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother—a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old. This leads him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
by Bushra Rehman
While attending a prestigious high school in Manhattan, Razia Mirza, from a tight-knit Muslim-American community, falls in love with a classmate, Angela. When their relationship is discovered, she must choose between her family and her own future.
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Long Island Compromise
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
In denial that they're all still affected by their wealthy businessman father's kidnapping back in 1980, the Fletcher siblings, as they hover at the delicate precipice of another kind of survival, must face desperate questions about how much their family's wealth has played a part in both their successes and failures.
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Worry
by Alexandra Tanner
When Jules's younger sister Poppy moves in, they are quickly joined by a poorly behaved dog named Amy Klobuchar. Between their mother's belief in conspiracy theories and a disastrous trip home, the two sisters must figure out their own relationships to each other and their own visions for their lives.
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Hope
by Andrew Ridker
This follow up to the wildly successful debut novel The Altruists follows a seemingly perfect family struggling with the aftermath of a series of scandals that threatens to tear them apart. Takes place in Brookline, MA.
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Death Valley
by Melissa Broder
Seeking respite from her father and husband suffering simultaneous illnesses, a young woman visits the California high desert. Instead of finding quiet and peace, she goes on a desert hike and encounters a strange, towering cactus with a door in it, promising a mystical journey beyond.
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Take What You Need
by Idra Novey
As a child, Leah never felt like she could follow in the footsteps of her stepmother, Joan. Instead, she chose to leave the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania for a more urban life. But after Jean's passing, she must reconcile what she thought she knew and what was actually the case about her stepmother.
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The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
by Omer Friedlander
Set in Israel and the Middle East, this debut collection of moving, richly textured stories introduces characters, often outsiders or even outcasts, haunted by the past, or by a future they can see but often not reach.
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Our Country Friends
by Gary Shteyngart
When a group of old friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic, they end up spending 6 months in isolation during which old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.
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The Unfortunates
by J K Chukwu
A queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore, Sahara, feels like an all-around failure. But she finds hope, answers and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously dying.
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between popular Connell and lonely, intensely private Marianne is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college, which renders Connell introspective and Marianne social, but self-destructive.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness
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Commitment
by Mona Simpson
A late 1970s family is in crisis in when three teenage siblings in California try to manage on their own after their mother is committed to a state hospital for a deep depression.
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Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who want to fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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Our next meeting: Tuesday, June 10, 6:30 pm Library Conference Room on the Lower Level Our Poetry Readers Discussion Group usually meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30, but we do recommend confirming details on our events calendar in case of changes. Copies of our next book are on reserve at the Circulation Desk. Enjoy your poetry reading!
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Our next meeting: Tuesday, June 17, 6:30 pm Library Meeting Room on the Lower Level Our Fiction Book Club usually meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30, but we do recommend confirming details on our events calendar in case of changes. Copies of our next book are on reserve at the Circulation Desk. We hope to see you there!
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