May '20 Notable Books: Kathryn Harkup, Samanta Schweblin, Tracy O'Neill & More
A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...
All Adults Here - Emma Straub (May 4) - In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.
The Motion of the Body Through Space - Lionel Shriver (May 5) - The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin (May 5) - A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale.
Telephone - Percival Everett (May 5) - A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us, Telephone is a Percival Everett novel we should have seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save.
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts - Kathryn Harkup (May 5) - An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters.
Quotients - Tracy O'Neill (May 12) - Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake (May 12) - In Entangled Life, biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view.
Dark Mirror - Barton Gellman (May 19) - Through a gripping narrative of paranoia, clandestine operations and jaw-dropping revelations, Dark Mirror delineates in full for the first time the hidden superstructure that connects government espionage with Silicon Valley. Who is spying on us and why?
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
All Adults Here - Emma Straub (May 4) - In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.
The Motion of the Body Through Space - Lionel Shriver (May 5) - The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin (May 5) - A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale.
Telephone - Percival Everett (May 5) - A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us, Telephone is a Percival Everett novel we should have seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save.
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts - Kathryn Harkup (May 5) - An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters.
Quotients - Tracy O'Neill (May 12) - Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake (May 12) - In Entangled Life, biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view.
Dark Mirror - Barton Gellman (May 19) - Through a gripping narrative of paranoia, clandestine operations and jaw-dropping revelations, Dark Mirror delineates in full for the first time the hidden superstructure that connects government espionage with Silicon Valley. Who is spying on us and why?
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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