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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.
You should read as many of them as possible.
See his picks fromlast monthand next month.
Igbo and Greek mythology are braided into this heartbreaking and utterly unique novel.
Kochai balances whimsy and dread, innocence and experience, and Marwand becomes a modern-day Huck Finn.
Dystopia with a feminist cast has blossomed in the last few years, for not-too-mysterious reasons.
Walkers first novel,The Age of Miracles, was also a near-future dystopia.
Her second fits into a subset of that genre that you might call epidemic fiction.
And thats before we get inside the dreams.
Some excursions into fantasy feel new and organic to the material.
