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Idra Novey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Idra Novey is a novelist. Writer and translator. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED out now from @VikingBooks. August in UK @dauntbookspub

12 books
Book Cover for: Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation, Nuar Alsadir

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

Poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir juxtaposes motherhood with circus arts in this wondrous book on laughter and reframing perceptions of joy ... Her writing creates a light all its own. A must read.

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

The understated poetry in this new novel from Yiyun Li left me a more transparent creature in the strange creek of life. Li’s depiction of rural childhood, of the intensity of girlhood friendships in isolated places, resonated with me deeply.

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Small Rain, Garth Greenwell

Small Rain

Garth Greenwell
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

the most restorative, intimate, gorgeous exploration of illnesss and recovery I’ve ever read. Months after reading this galley of Small Rain, I continue to open it and revisit astonishing moments in it

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark

Fellowship Point

Alice Elliott Dark
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

I keep underlining whole passages in this tremendous new novel by @aliceelliottdark which has a writer protagonist and embedded invented books and characters of genuine and evolving complexity.

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Flight, Lynn Steger Strong

Flight

Lynn Steger Strong
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

This beautiful and astute new novel from @lynnstegerstrong is coming out soon. It’s wondrous. The writing is spare and subtle and I loved reading it this summer while teaching in Provincetown.

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The House on Via Gemito, Domenico Starnone

The House on Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

…The House on Via Gemito is rewarding on its own terms. Starnone is a writer exquisitely attuned to class anxieties: As his later novels do, Via Gemito explores the emotional cost of class mobility, and the psychic toll of changing one’s… behavior for the sake of…financial gain.

Hardcover, 2023

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Take What You Need, Idra Novey

Take What You Need

Idra Novey
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

"Our conversation spanned the continent." Such an honor to speak with @janeciab for this interview about writing, translation, women who weld, and TAKE WHAT YOU NEED. https://t.co/0zVFqvy1E5 via @lithub

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Faraway World: Stories, Patricia Engel

The Faraway World: Stories

Patricia Engel
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

Patricia Engel writes with such understated potency. I’ve read all her novels with deep admiration and each subtle story in this new book risks something unexpected and powerful. The first story La Ruta is haunting. Aida and Fausto, too. Look out for this comet of a collection.

Paperback, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

“I was frustrated with these ready-made ideas that so many of my peers had...I remember walking home one day, thinking: ‘It’s like we’re all in a museum exhibit called The Late Americans." Brilliant profile of @blgtylr by @alexneedham74 https://t.co/XpxfAnjcWt

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid
Idra NoveyIdra Novey

Some short novels cut deeper and stay in the mind far longer than novels with four times as many pages. Kincaid’s Annie John is one of those... I wish I had come across this spare, sly, quietly fearless novel years ago. It’s tremendous.

Paperback, 1997

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book