Aug '21 Notable Books: Ash Davidson, Joshua Ferris, Megan Abbott & Peter Heller

A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...

The Turnout - Megan Abbott (Aug. 3) - Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.

Damnation Spring - Ash Davidson Bell (Aug. 3) - An epic, immersive debut, Damnation Spring is the deeply human story of a Pacific Northwest logging town wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life.

The Guide - Peter Heller (Aug. 24) - The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. A novel as gripping as it is lyrical, as frightening as it is moving, The Guide is another masterpiece from Peter Heller.

A Calling for Charlie Barnes - Joshua Ferris (Aug. 26) - A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned.

(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)

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