“Zed,” Joanna Kavenna: A colossal tech corporation with tendrils in life, the economy and politics, and a predictive algorithm set this dystopian story into motion. Cigar,” Gibby Haynes: If you’re wondering what the Dallas native and Butthole Surfers frontman has been doing lately, well, he’s written a darkly funny YA novel about a troubled teen and his supernatural dog. They’ll appear at Congregation Emanu El on Jan.
But true to the title, there are some optimistic glimmers here. “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: Pulitzer-winning husband-wife team dive into struggling small towns in America revealing systems and programs that have failed. “A Long Petal of the Sea,” Isabel Allende: This piece of historical fiction starts after the fall of the Spanish government in the 1930s and charts the journey of a widow and her spouse’s brother as they try to start a new life in Chile. The 21 stories collected represent broad thematic content mined by Hurston in Harlem in the mid 1920s.
“Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick,” Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing in this new story anthology is technically “previously unpublished,” but it does rescue eight stories that had been published decades ago in anthologies and then largely forgotten. But it represents a few urgent, weird and promising titles for the first half of 2020. It’s also a gripping piece of fiction that drew a lot of buzz weeks before release.
It’s the mythic Texas that we think we know.”Īnother January release of note is “Long Bright River.” Liz Moore’s fourth novel touches on the opioid epidemic in her tale of two sisters whose paths diverge greatly from childhood. These characters and their intertwined stories will work a way into your heart. “Set in West Texas during the oil booms and busts of the ’70s, it’s the women who bear the brunt of the brutality of the culture. Koehler is also keen on “Valentine” by Elizabeth Wetmore, due March 31.
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