Marion Winik Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Marion Winik

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels about life lessons learned on the job: Mateo Askaripour's Black Buck and Chang Rae Lee's My Year Abroad. @LisaMorGold @WYPR881FM @riverheadbooks https://t.co/B6CPse1fmo

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A hot summer is taking its toll on Bea, an art gallery owner whose recently empty nest has exposed a shaky marriage…She’s not a thief, exactly—well, there is that one designer dress—but she does tend to leave her mark. Surely the most interesting midlife crisis of the year.

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What ties it altogether is Burns' passion for her characters, tunneling ever more deeply into how they understand themselves and how they define and misunderstand each other. Making sense of who people are and how they turned out that way is the real game here.

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Bollen gleefully lays on the melodrama and teases out the unmasking of his very unreliable narrator, escalating to a cymbal-crashing finale of revelations and violence.

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On the Weekly Reader: @cathyparkhong Minor Feelings, to which I just had the pleasure of awarding the NBCC autobiography prize, and Roberto Lovato's excellent Unforgetting. @WYPR881FM @LisaMorGold https://t.co/oQAD1z1Tt7 @HarperCollins @WYPR881FM @oneworldbooks

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Why are there so many poor people in America, and what can we do about it? This man has answers. The passion, eloquence, and lively storytelling that made Evicted a Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller are back in force as Desmond continues to speak on behalf of America’s most hard-pressed.

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Vintage Shapiro are the novel’s metaphysical themes: the intersections of time and memory, the reality of the human soul and the unexpected bonds between strangers ... Shapiro’s novel offers the comfort of a view from the stars.

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Curious about a new guy, Ana falls into a social media sinkhole when she sees her predecessor: gorgeous, blonde and dead. If you've ever obsessed over a partner's ex, this propulsive debut will give you chills.

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On the Weekly Reader, two really great books about feeling bad: Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason and The Way She Feels, by Courtney Cook https://t.co/wG7URSVwsL @LisaMorGold @WYPR881FM @tinhouse @HarperCollins

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As inspiring—and incredible—as the true story of William and Ellen Craft’s 1848 escape from slavery is, it seems unbelievable we’re just hearing about it now.