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From career-defining epics to wild story collections, spring
has a book for everyone
Forty years in the making and clocking in at 880 pages, The American
People, Vol. I is the first part of the magnum opus from award-winning
playwright and author Larry Kramer. The book, which kicks off with 12
epigraphs, is an entire history of a nation. Readers encounter prehistoric
monkeys, a revised presentation of the Lincoln assassination, and a plot to
exterminate homosexuals as the AIDS virus begins to spread.
Though readers might not have been waiting quite so long for Kazuo
Ishiguro’s new novel, The Buried Giant, it’s been 10 years since his previ-
ous book, Never Let Me Go. This mythical novel is set in Arthurian England
and takes the form of a quest story, but the heroes are no knights—they’re
an elderly couple.
Kelly Link returns with the story collection Get in Trouble. The book is
stuffed with her distinct brand of bizarre and wonderful details, including a
superhero named Mann Man, who has the powers of Thomas Mann.
A new Toni Morrison book is always an event, and her latest novel, God
Help the Child, is no exception. In this book, which PW starred, a mother
learns about the damage adults do to children and the lasting effect this can
have as they grow up.
Kate Atkinson follows up her die-and-redo epic, Life After Life, with A
God in Ruins. This one centers on Life After Life protagonist Ursula Todd’s
younger brother, Teddy, an RAF bomber pilot and would-be poet.
Reif Larsen, author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, delivers I Am
Radar, an ambitious globe-trotting epic about a man who gets involved
with a shadowy group of puppeteers.
One of our most popular authors, Judy Blume, will publish her first adult
work in 16 years. In the Unlikely Event uses real-life airplane crashes in
Elizabeth, N.J., in the early 1950s as a backdrop.
Though 2015 has just begun, we already have a candidate for the year’s
funniest book: Making Nice by Matt Sumell is a rambunctious novel-in-
stories featuring the hotheaded Alby.
Bestseller Kristin Hannah takes on WWII in The Nightingale, a
novel that spans half a century and centers on the secret lives of the
residents of a small town in France.
And T. Geronimo Johnson, a PEN/Faulkner finalist for his debut novel
Hold It ’Til It Hurts, offers his second novel, Welcome to Braggsville, a
dark, cutting coming-of-age story set on the UC Berkeley campus.
residents of a small town in France.
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