Staff Picks April 2024
CARA
THE FURY by Alex Michaelides
In true Alex Michaelides fashion (The Silent Patient, The Maidens), The Fury is a propulsive murder mystery told by an eccentric and deeply unreliable narrator. Set on a beautiful island in Greece, a group of friends, all with axes to grind, will uncover secrets that will change their lives forever.
MICHAEL
THE OTHER VALLEY
by Scott Alexander Howard
What if you could cross your town’s border and see your community twenty years from now? Or, cross over on the other side of town and see long-departed loved ones twenty years in the past? Scott Alexander Howard’s remarkable debut novel The Other Valley examines the moral and practical implications of a society where select citizens are the arbiter of who can and cannot cross over in time.
CHRIS
GLORIOUS EXPLOITS
by Ferdia Lennon
With heart and humor in ample and equal measure, rife with moments of real gut-wrenching drama and an unflappable sense of adventure, Glorious Exploits is ancient-historical fiction with the voice of a humorous contemporary satire, as if Circe were covered by Roddy Doyle.
SIERRA
HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel
Visceral, astute, and delightfully intimate, Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot follows a bracket of eight teenage girls as they fight in hopes of being crowned the best young boxer in the US. Bullwinkel masterfully explores the girls' innermost thoughts, drives, and, of course, feelings about hitting and being hit by each other to illustrate that each of them is, if only for a moment, the most powerful person in the room.
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