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Fiction A to Z November 2023 |
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| America Fantastica by Tim O'BrienWhile perpetual liar Boyd Halverson would love to get revenge on his billionaire ex-father-in-law, he also needs to stay ahead of a hitman, embezzling bank owners, and more, after he robs a bank and takes an evangelical teller hostage. This rollicking satire set in 2019 is the acclaimed author's first novel in decades. Read-alike: Mark Haskell Smith's Blown; Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Bluff. |
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| The Museum of Failures by Thrity UmrigarRemy Wadia returns to India to visit his widowed mother and meet the pregnant teen whose baby Remy and his American wife plan to adopt. But the teen decides to keep the baby, his mother is deathly ill, and he finds a life-altering photograph in this poignant examination of love and family. Read-alike: Kyung-Sook Shin's I Went to See my Father. |
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| Let Us Descend by Jesmyn WardIn pre-Civil War North Carolina, an enslaved woman secretly teaches her daughter, Annis, survival skills. Those lessons plus old spirits help teenage Annis as she is marched to New Orleans and endures life on a sugarcane plantation in this vivid, haunting tale. Read-alike: The Known World by Edward P. Jones; The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. |
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Things we hide from the light
by Lucy Score
Struggling after being shot, Chief of Police Nash Morgan, feeling like a broody shell of the man he once was, finds himself drawn to his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, and determined to make this mysterious woman his, discovers that means facing the danger that nearly killed him. Original.
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Hang the moon : a novel
by Jeannette Walls
After encouraging her younger step-brother to participate in daredevil activities leads to an accident, Sallie Kincaid is cast out of her family, in the new novel from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Glass Castle.
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Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
What happens: William, a reserved college basketball scholarship recipient, begins dating Julie, the eldest of four boisterous sisters in 1970s Chicago. His acceptance into the family becomes a defining moment for all concerned.
What it's about: "the deep, maddeningly frustrating, and ever-present love of family, whether tied by genetics or by choice" (Booklist).
Try this next: The Darlings by Cristina Alger, This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, or Crossing California by Adam Langer.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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