Sept '20 Notable Books: Jenny Bhatt, Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi & More
A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...
Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi (Sept. 1) - Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanain immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief — a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
Each of Us Killers - Jenny Bhatt (Sept. 8) - Set in the American Midwest, England, and India (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, rural Gujarat) the stories in Each of Us Killers are about people trying to realize their dreams and aspirations through their professions.
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (Sept. 15) - For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar (Sept. 15) - A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved - Kenneth Catania (Sept. 15) - Examining some strange and spectacular creatures, Great Adaptations offers a wondrous journey into nature's grand designs.
The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult (Sept. 22) - Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises - John Gribbin (Sept. 24) - These 'pillars of science' also defy common sense. For example, solid things are mostly empty space, so how do they hold together? There appears to be no special 'life force', so how do we distinguish living things from inanimate objects? And why does ice float on water, when most solids don't?
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi (Sept. 1) - Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanain immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief — a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
Each of Us Killers - Jenny Bhatt (Sept. 8) - Set in the American Midwest, England, and India (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, rural Gujarat) the stories in Each of Us Killers are about people trying to realize their dreams and aspirations through their professions.
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (Sept. 15) - For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar (Sept. 15) - A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved - Kenneth Catania (Sept. 15) - Examining some strange and spectacular creatures, Great Adaptations offers a wondrous journey into nature's grand designs.
The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult (Sept. 22) - Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises - John Gribbin (Sept. 24) - These 'pillars of science' also defy common sense. For example, solid things are mostly empty space, so how do they hold together? There appears to be no special 'life force', so how do we distinguish living things from inanimate objects? And why does ice float on water, when most solids don't?
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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