May '21 Notable Books: Anjali Enjeti, Lina Meruane, Rachel Cusk & More
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
Second Place - Rachel Cusk (May 4) - From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.
The Parted Earth - Anjali Enjeti (May 4) - In August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa's life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days leading up to the birth of the Muslim minority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India.
Nervous System - Lina Meruane (May 18) - Lina Meruane's Nervous System is an extraordinary clinical biography of a family, full of affection and resentment, dark humor and buried secrets, in which illness describes the traumas that can be visited not just upon the body, but on families and on the history of the countries—present and past—that we live in.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan (May 25) - In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects - Jonathan Balcombe (May 25) - In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Second Place - Rachel Cusk (May 4) - From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.
The Parted Earth - Anjali Enjeti (May 4) - In August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa's life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days leading up to the birth of the Muslim minority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India.
Nervous System - Lina Meruane (May 18) - Lina Meruane's Nervous System is an extraordinary clinical biography of a family, full of affection and resentment, dark humor and buried secrets, in which illness describes the traumas that can be visited not just upon the body, but on families and on the history of the countries—present and past—that we live in.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan (May 25) - In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects - Jonathan Balcombe (May 25) - In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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