Intergenerational feuds, a gleaming tale of 1960s New York, stories about storytelling—these and more recommendations on what to read when you need a break from the news cycle this month.
‘A Case of Matricide’ by Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Blasé chief inspector Gorski, of Saint-Louis, France, embarks on a bungled relationship and tangles with a novelist whose mother is afraid he’s going to kill her in this marvelously meta mystery from Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet. (Biblioasis)
‘Love Can’t Feed You’ by Cherry Lou Sy
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In Cherry Lou Sy’s debut, a man and his children leave the Philippines to join his wife in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; there, teenage Queenie finds herself caught between her feuding parents and begins to explore her own desire. (Dutton)
‘Eurotrash’ by Christian Kracht
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Christian Kracht released Faserland in 1995; nearly 30 years later this sequel finds its narrator on a road trip with his infirm and barbiturate-popping mother while attempting to right the sins of his forefathers. (Liveright)
‘Every Arc Bends Its Radian’ by Sergio De La Pava
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A “poet/philosopher/ private eye” searches Colombia for a missing woman, encountering police corruption and crime syndicates in Sergio De La Pava’s roiling, noirish, existential explosion of a novel. (Simon & Schuster)
‘Women’s Hotel’ by Daniel M. Lavery
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From Daniel M. Lavery, a finely wrought and funny group portrait of the inhabitants of a waning Barbizon-esque hotel in 1960s New York: A bartender, a biographer, a party girl, and others juggle jobs and relationships. (HarperVia)
‘Don’t Be a Stranger’ by Susan Minot
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A divorced mother, nearly 53, falls under the erotic thrall of a charismatic roving musician—a “comet” about which she begins to orbit. With deft, sleek prose, Susan Minot captures the all-consuming nature of obsession. (Knopf)
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