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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Masterful... The momentum of the novel builds as long-held misunderstandings and resentments come to the surface, illuminating the meaning of what it means to be a mother, and a son, and culminating with a great sense of a weight lifted, of lightness and air.

Marion Winik

"Great Female Protagonists" on Weekly Reader: Great Circle, by @MaggieShipstead and Klara and the Sun, by @vinelandenergy. The straight scoop in four minutes. https://omny.fm/shows/the-weekly-reader/weekly-reader-210414-207-ishiguro-shipstead

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Hurston was obsessed with the Bible and driven to re-invent it through historical fiction... this detailed, revolutionary rethinking of Herod, present[s] a man usually seen as one of the bloodiest villains in the Bible as a charismatic ruler who led his people toward peace and prosperity.

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Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations... Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.

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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.

Marion Winik

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.

Marion Winik

A masterpiece of its kind, chronicling a year (1980-81) in the life of [a] prep school freshman... The evocation of the New York of that period — the architecture, the catchphrases, the public life, and popular culture — is so textured and compelling as to be a kind of literary virtual reality.

Marion Winik

This is a novel historical fiction mavens will adore, as its storytelling magic and emotional depth flow over a foundation of enlightening, critically important facts.