Lorraine Berry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lorraine Berry

Among the jeweled facets of “Runaway” is Keane’s writing, but her skill as a poet and essayist is accompanied by a journalist’s rigor...“Runaway” lures us with a fairy tale, but as we draw closer, we begin to see the contours of a world that is more complex but no less fearsome.

Lorraine Berry

@AlisonStine Celeste Ng’s OUR MISSING HEARTS was absolutely phenomenal. I also loved TRESPASSES by Louise Kennedy and adored it. LARK ASCENDING by Silas House. Those would be 3 I recommend. 🤗

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@JamesTateHill If you’re still looking, I can recommend @ErinSwan Walk the Vanished Earth; Jess Row, The New Earth, and Stephen Markley, The Deluge. All feature multiple POV, climate fiction, and family dynamics set in present/near future.

Lorraine Berry

Extraordinary novel about the California water wars; the desertification of the Owens Valley; and Manzanar, one of the US-based concentration camps. The writing brought me to tears.

Lorraine Berry

Looking for a feminist horror western? Novelist Victor LaValle is your (highly evolved) man

Lorraine Berry

His deep political and philosophical examination of how... to create and sustain freedom, provides a hopeful view for the future... Snyder renders political theories and complex philosophical debates about epistemology and ethics into friendly language that engages and educates.

Lorraine Berry

Set in a city diminished by plague and a poisonous algae bloom, the narrator focuses her attention on her remaining relationships. In writing about the ways folks hold together during difficult times, Trías untangles the myths and realities of resilience.

Lorraine Berry

Dubus brilliantly captures the ways chronic pain erodes the self... [He] probes at masculinity’s wounds, its core beliefs about earning money as a means of caring for others, and exposes the selfishness and emptiness at its core... Such Kindness is an astonishing novel.

Lorraine Berry

@TheBookMaven I just started reading POMEGRANATE by Helen Elaine Lee. My goodness. What a knockout. I’ll be devouring it this weekend.

Lorraine Berry

Brilliantly portrays 2020s America... Senna's humor mixes with her deep understanding of cultural foibles and the human heart to produce a novel that is simultaneously a laugh-out-loud cultural comedy and a riveting novel of ideas... Senna turns what could have been heavy into a celebratory triumph filled with joy and love.