![]() ![]() As she gets to know the crew, it becomes clear they have more in common than she thought. ![]() Franny Stone/Lynch boards a fishing boat, despite her distaste for the trade in a world devastated by over-fishing, to follow the tern, a bird with the largest migration pattern whose numbers are down to single digits. ![]() This slow burn debut features an unreliable narrator with a complicated past whose jagged edges emerge throughout the novel. John Mandel’s usual third person, distanced narrative, but it gives rise to a sense of how unreliable we can be when narrating our own lives, and offers its own subterfuge.įinally, also try Migrationsby Charlotte McConaghy. Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden is a more direct narration than St. Maggie O’Farrell’s The Hand That First Held Mine tells parallel stories in the past and present, surfacing long-buried secrets and connections, with a crescendo of character and prose. The kidnapping ripples through the narrative in a kind of undertow of small town sadness. It starts with the disappearance of two young girls and becomes a story that prismatically enters the lives of people within this small rural outpost town. ![]() Disappearing Earthby Julia Phillips conveys that mystery in every day life with a little explored setting in literary fiction–Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. ![]()
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