Its plot: A doctor invents a procedure that permanently transforms black people into whites-denying the South lynching opportunities, among other things. Schuyler (Penguin Classics) Reissued in 2018, this 1931 novel is a scathing satire of the hypocrisy of freedom. This one, about love and loss and self-discovery, might be best left for the privacy of your room, unless you don't mind shedding a few tears at the beach.īlack No More, by George S. Sea of Strangers, by Lang Leav (Andrews McMeel Publishing) Credit the serene Leav with popularizing poetry, which she seamlessly mixes with prose in her empowering international best-sellers. Unsettling and beautifully written, Namdar captures the seduction of an ancient religion as the world begins to crack. The Ruined House, by Ruby Namdar (HarperCollins Publishers) A wildly original novel about the mental, physical and spiritual undoing of an arrogant college professor-a secular Jew living in elitist New York on the eve of 9/11.
That's not the case with this debut short story collection-so delicious Reese Witherspoon snapped up the rights before publication, to be adapted for a series starring Kristen Wiig. Sometimes lost in that congeniality is the dazzle of her writing. You Think It, I'll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House) Sittenfeld is able to make complex, over-educated women accessible because they are generally as flawed as they are devastatingly funny and clever (see Prep, American Wife). Darznik sumptuously captures a fierce and turbulent life, as well as a vanished country swept away by revolution. Both loved and hated, she came to represent Iran's "New Woman" in the '60s. Song of a Captive Bird, by Jasmin Darznik (Ballantine Books) A debut novel based on the life of Iran's celebrated and controversial female poet and filmmaker, Forugh Farrokhzad.
Bloom does just that, with tenderness and great humor, rescuing one woman from obscurity, the other from sanctimony.
White Houses, by Amy Bloom (Penguin Random House) Imagine the relationship of Eleanor Roosevelt and her real-life lover, the pioneering journalist Lorena Hickok-an affair arguably sanctioned by FDR. The sci-fi murder mystery is also a clever retelling of Sherlock Holmes, only this arrogant detective is partnered with a sentient spaceship called the Shadow's Child. The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean) Bodard, a French-Vietnamese speculative fiction writer, has created the Xuya universe, which imagines Asian cultures dominating space in the far future. No wonder it's being called our era's Handmaid's Tale. That's the deceptively simple premise of this British author's prize-winning novel-a witty and endlessly surprising dystopian manifesto. The Power, by Naomi Alderman (Viking Press) Teenage girls across the globe suddenly discover their bodies can produce a deadly electrical charge.
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