| Monica by Daniel ClowesThis vibrant graphic novel, an "emotionally resonant and unforgettable opus" (Library Journal), explores the titular character via nine stories set in the 1960s to the present day, as she looks for the mother who abandoned her. Read-alikes: Ex Libris by Matt Madden. |
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| The Good Part by Sophie CousensOne night 26-year-old Lucy Young makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life and the next day she awakens 16 years in the future with a great husband, a great job, and two great children, but with no memories of her missing years, in this charming time-slip rom-com. Read-alikes: Margarita Montimore's Oona Out of Order; Amy Lea's Woke Up Like This. |
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| Day by Michael CunninghamPulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham's long-awaited new novel takes place on the same day (April 5) in three different years (2019, 2020, and 2021) as a married Brooklyn duo, their two kids, and the couple's two brothers navigate endings, beginnings, the pandemic, and more. Read-alikes: Daniel Mason's North Woods; Paul Murray's The Bee Sting; Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends. |
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| The Liberators by E.J. KohThis multigenerational story takes place between the 1980s and the 2010s (with a 1940s interlude) and centers around the lives of Sungho and Insuk, who leave South Korea for California. There, they raise their son, adapt to life in a new country, and wrestle with the past in this moving debut novel by award-winning poet and memoirist E.J. Koh. |
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| A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul PalmaWhen the bill collector who's been hounding him for years says he'll cancel his medical debt if Miami widower and babaláwo Hugo Contreras rids his home of spirits, Hugo agrees...but gets more than he bargained for in this offbeat, darkly humorous tale. Read-alikes: The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias; The Family Izquierdo by Rubén Degollado. |
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| Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed ParkIn this wildly creative three-part novel that combines fact and fiction, readers meet both Soon Sheen, an ex-writer turned tech worker who finds a manuscript depicting a world where the Korean Provisional Government (KPG) still secretly exists, and Parker Jotter, a Black Korean War vet who's now a SF author. Read-alike: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. |
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| The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersWhile a Mi'kmaq family from Novia Scotia picks blueberries in 1962 Maine, four-year-old Ruthie goes missing. Her disappearance reverberates for decades, as seen in the narration of Joe, Ruthie's brother who never gets over the loss, and Norma, a lonely only child with a connection to Ruthie. Read-alikes: A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power; Stealing by Margaret Verble. |
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| Above the Salt by Katherine VazThe persecution of Protestants in 1840s Portugal finds a widow fleeing to the United States with her five-year-old son, John, who later works for Abraham Lincoln. But it's the love between John and Mary, a girl from his childhood and a talented gardener, that propels this lyrical story. Read-alikes: Nancy Horan's The House of Lincoln; Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things. |
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