fall in love with the same
young nurse. Audin’s remarkable, deeply empathetic text
is enriched by recurrences,
coincidences, and invocations
of European poetry, including
Dante’s Inferno and Faust, in a
story that attempts to make
sense of the war’s aftermath.
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett (Riverhead)
This delightfully strange book, difficult to describe and impossible to resist,
features a nameless woman who lives a
largely solitary and ordinary life in a cottage in rural Ireland, obsessing over
everything from her romantic life to the
neighborhood dog relieving itself on her
property. Bennett’s off-kilter narrator
and twisty observations result in something undeniably unique and
wonderful.
Problems
Jade Sharma (Emily Books)
Maya is a young woman
living in New York; she has
an afterthought of a job at a
bookstore, is cheating on her
husband with a former professor, and regularly does
heroin. Sharma’s debut is an
uncompromising and unforgettable depiction of the
corrosive loop of addiction, and with
Maya, she has crafted and painfully
honest voice.
Siracusa
Delia Ephron (Blue Rider)
A vacation in Sicily with
two families includes ex-
lovers, a precocious teenager
with an obsessive mother, a
cheating husband whose par-
amour appears unexpectedly,
and an oppressive ancient
town. Ephron’s novel of two imploding
marriages makes for a riveting, psycho-
logically complex story.
Sudden Death
Álvaro Enrigue, trans. from the Spanish by
Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead)
Enrigue ingeniously uses a 16th-cen-
tury game of tennis between two
hungover players (Spanish poet Quevedo
and the notorious painter Caravaggio),
played with a ball made of Anne Boleyn’s
hair, to explore the beauties and atroci-ties of Renaissance Europe.
This is an unpredictable,
nonpareil novel that, as with
the macabre tennis ball at its
center, “bounce[s] like a
thing possessed.”
The Unseen World
Liz Moore (Norton)
Leaping from the 1980s to
the early 2000s, this is the
COMPENDIUM’S BEST-SELLING KIDS’ BOOKS
This book tells the story of one
brilliant child and the idea he
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