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Meanwhile, more than a handful of moving, wise, and important novels have slipped through the cracks.
Fourteen-year-old Cindy lives in a beat-up trailer in rural Pennsylvania with her two older brothers and an occasional mother.
Can a love-starved teenage girl be held accountable for such a nefarious con?
Is itreallya con if there is no apparent victim?
Lutzs extraordinarily fun and blood pressure-raising novel is set in 2009 pre-Me Too but post-The Facebook.
We never quite learn whether this tale of a secret schoolboy romance is true.
It took 30 years to make its way to America, butTerritorydeserves a spot here.
6.Supper Club, Lara Williams
Pour a vessel of burgundy over your face.
Reach into a watermelon and scoop the flesh into your mouth.
Lick the bacon grease from the bowl.
What starts as a feminist Bacchanalia eventually threatens to consume Roberta herself.
5.The Grammarians, Cathleen Schine
Identical twins?
Identical twin grammatical whizzes who communicate via a private language but eventually go to war over their divergent theories?
Laurel and Daphne revolve around each other like dueling twin planets.
Daphne grows into The Peoples Pedant, an exacting columnist and minor New York celeb.
Laurel, a kindergarten teacher and mother, eventually turns to poetry, publicly chastising her sisters prescriptivism.
How far do the products of one split embryo have to run from one another to stake their independence?
Schines own language is a fusion of the sisters lavish but precise, and awe-inducing.
4.The Need, Helen Phillips
Motherhood is scary as fuck.
Will I love my baby?
Will it love me?
Will I kill it?
Will someone else kill it?
The result is a thriller about, of all things, work-life balance.
Read it with the doors locked and the childrens bedroom monitor on.
3.Bunny, Mona Awad
Id have done an MFA if Id known it could be this wild.
Awad writes with a razor blade.
Its a perfect correction to the overwrought politico-apocalyptic fiction so fashionable in These Times.
ImagineInto the Wildwith prepubescents, told in the voice of a William Blake acolyte as verbally inventive as Tolkien.
