Mar '19 Notable Books: Dave Eggers, Nathan Englander, Tim Maughan & More
A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...
The Reign of the Kingfisher - T. J. Martinson (Mar. 5) - 30 years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T. J. Martinson.
Infinite Detail - Tim Maughan (Mar. 5) - A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.
Instructions for a Funeral: Stories - David Means (Mar. 5) - Instructions for a Funeral—featuring work from The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, and VICE—finds Means branching out beyond the explorations of violence and trauma with which he is often identified, prominently displaying his sly humor and his inimitable way of telling tales that deliciously wind up to punch the reader in the heart.
The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Perry Mason Mystery - Erle Stanley Gardner (Mar. 5) - Perry Mason seeks the link between a poisoned kitten, a murdered man, and a mysterious voice from the past. (Reprint)
The Parade - Dave Eggers (Mar. 19) - From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.
Instructions for a Funeral: Stories - David Means (Mar. 5) - Instructions for a Funeral—featuring work from The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, and VICE—finds Means branching out beyond the explorations of violence and trauma with which he is often identified, prominently displaying his sly humor and his inimitable way of telling tales that deliciously wind up to punch the reader in the heart.
The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Perry Mason Mystery - Erle Stanley Gardner (Mar. 5) - Perry Mason seeks the link between a poisoned kitten, a murdered man, and a mysterious voice from the past. (Reprint)
The Parade - Dave Eggers (Mar. 19) - From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.
Kaddish.com - Nathan Englander (Mar. 26) - The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father.
The Other Americans - Laila Lalami (Mar. 26) - From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
The Other Americans - Laila Lalami (Mar. 26) - From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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