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Hag-Seed (Hogarth) is Margaret Atwood’s retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Betsy Burton says this is a “novel of revenge unlike any you’ve…
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In Nutshell (Nan A. Talese), Ian McEwan’s latest novel, a very special fetus overhears a murder plot. Yes, it’s a story straight out of the womb. And, as…
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Mercury (Harper Collins) by Margot Livesey is a story about obsession and horses. Betsy Burton says Livesey has crafted a novel “that tells us something…
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In A Gentleman in Moscow (Viking) by Amor Towles, a young aristocrat’s poem saves him from catching a Bolshevik bullet. He ends up under house arrest in a…
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Mischling (Lee Boudreaux Books) by Affinity Konar is the story of twin sisters Pearl and Stasha trying to survive Auschwitz and the Nazi physician Josef…
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Where Rivers Change Direction (Riverhead) chronicles author Mark Spragg’s experiences growing up on a dude ranch. In her review, Betsy Burton says it’s “a…
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Colson Whitehead’s new novel is called Underground Railroad (Doubleday). It’s a fictional take on one of the most important, and least visible, resistance…