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This month’s selection
May 2025
Twist
An “urgent [and] ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
“Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.”
Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.
When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?
Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.more
Previous selections from Belletrist
Belletrist has selected a book each month since 2017. See the full archive
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Vauhini Vara
The Strange Case of Jane O.
Karen Thompson Walker
The Mystery Guest: A True Story
Grégoire Bouillier
The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
Sarah Hoover
Darkly
Marisha Pessl
Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Bright I Burn
Molly Aitken
Five-Star Stranger
Kat Tang
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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