Life expectancyAbdulrazak Gurna (Riverhead, August 23)
Gurna, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, often deals with the themes of asylum and exile. His latest novel, set in East Africa under German rule in the 1900s, has three characters: His sister, Afiya, raised by his best friend after he left. And another former soldier, Hamza, who returned from the war and fell in love with Afiya.
One of Edie Sedgwick’s sisters jumps into the star’s life and career in this deep and personal history. “I’m trying to figure out exactly what happened when Eddie was with Andy. [Warhol]”She writes.” I want to understand what he was doing. So far, something started to move when the two got together, leading to the present that we are all alive. It seems that.”
Dead-end Memories: Story, Banana Yoshimoto. Translated by Asahi Yoneda. (Counterpoint, August 9)
First published in Japan in 2003 and newly available here, the collection offers many of Yoshimoto’s distinctive themes, including lonely women, betrayal, relationship turmoil, and elegance. increase.
Boyd’s Diary, Emi Yagi. Translated by David Boyd and Lucy North. (Viking, August 9th)
In this debut novel, the only woman in the Tokyo office is forging her pregnancy to avoid unwanted work at work. As she gets deeper into lies (disguising her growing belly and tracking the development of her “baby”), the story takes a totally ridiculous dimension-in search of discrimination and double standards. Is even better.
In her heyday, Kiki de Montparnasse was a star in the bohemian district of Paris. She was a Surrealist movie star, a famous painter, and an incandescent nightclub star. But now she is often inferior to her relationship with Man Ray. This biography reminds readers of her own artistic achievements — she may have been Man Ray’s muse, but it’s not the only one — and digs deeper into their relationship.
Last white manBy Mosin Hamid (Riverhead, August 2nd)
In this latest novel by the author of “Exit West,” Anders, a white man, wakes up and finds that his skin color has changed to “deep and undeniable brown.” As more people in the community begin to experience similar changes, it begins to calculate about power and justice.
In Los Angeles in the 1940s, Maria worked as a producer in the founder’s film studio after fleeing Italy a few years ago. Her boss, Artie, was out of luck. Money is running out and he is in conflict with his business partner. Previous He was summoned to testify before Congress. With the outbreak of World War II, the studio became a haven for all kinds of asylum seekers, including actors, writers and Émigré.
What happens if the parent-child relationship is reversed? Novelist and critic Tillman took care of her mother as she approached death. In this book, she captures her changing emotions and her responsibilities in generous details.
Chicago mountainAdam Levine (Doubleday, August 9)
In this novel, a Chicago comedian fights an unimaginable tragedy. A sinkhole has opened under the Art Institute, killing almost the entire family. In sorrow, he meets a longtime fan who works in the mayor’s office. From the perspective of a neurotic parrot, there are plenty of heartaches, urban politics, humor, and moving passages. “
In this debut novel, a strange young black man leaves a comfortable family life in Indianapolis and heads to New York in the 1980s. This provides a thrilling and sometimes furious, political and social background to his adult ceremonies.
Macy’s 2018 book, Dope Chic, traces Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis. Here she focuses on those who are fighting overdose at the forefront of refusing to blame addiction: nurse practitioners, ministers.
yoga, By Emmanuel Carrère. Translated by John Lambert. (Farrah, Strauss & Gillow, August 2nd)
Curry wanted to write a “subtle little book about yoga,” he said in this semi-autobiographical new novel. But the story is much more about: the dissolution of his romantic relationship. Depression and other personal grief. And finally, how meditation and writing inform each other.
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