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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books.
Fiction edges out nonfiction among our
recommended titles this week — especially family stories, with
parent-child relationships at the heart of new novels by Katie Williams
(“Tell the Machine Goodnight”), Evgenia Citkowitz (“The Shades”) and
Rumaan Alam (“That Kind of Mother”). You may recognize Rumaan’s name
from the NYT Books briefing he emails every Tuesday — you should subscribe,
if you haven’t already! — and I’m happy to vouch that he’s just as
charming in person as he is in your inbox. And on the page, too. Here’s
how his novel starts: “The book lied. Books lied; she knew that. … What
could a book tell you?”
Plenty, we
hope, even the ones that lie. Along with another novel (Keith Gessen’s
“A Terrible Country,” this time about a grandparent-grandchild
relationship), the week’s other suggestions include an urbane and
wide-ranging essay collection, an argument for cash handouts from the
government and a memoir of life as a stenographer in the Obama White
House.
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Source: New York Times
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Source: New York Times
