Welcome to Blogtober Day #19!
Today's post is all about books! Here is my list of book suggestions for this Fall season.
Enjoy!
1. Sing, Unburied, Sing
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award winning Salvage the Bones,
this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into
rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey
and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey
through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait
of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major
American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.
Jojo
and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and
Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie,
on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously
tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come
to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop
tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the
white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her
kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for
Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife
with danger and promise.
Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples
with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power,
and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive,
musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential
2. Little Fires Everywhere
In Shaker Heights, a
placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from
the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the
successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies
this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is
playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist
and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her
teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon
Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are
drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a
mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to
upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends
of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody
battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena
on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is
determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will
come at unexpected and devastating costs.
3. On the Street Where You Live
Following a nasty
divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily
Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her
ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring
Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of
Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and
identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished
several years ago. Within her hand is the finger bone of another woman,
with a ring -- a Shapley family heirloom -- still on it. Determined to
find the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a
seductive killer...who chooses her as the next victim.
4. All Around the Town
When Laurie Kenyon, a
twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English
professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however,
are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her
defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped
at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed
astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those
lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out—and only
then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is
stronger than ever, be revealed.
What's on your reading for the Fall?
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