Sept '21 Notable Books: Jon McGregor, Karl Ove Knausgård, Ruth Ozeki & More
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
Constance - Matthew FitzSimmons (Sept. 1) - A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman's waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller.
Matrix - Lauren Groff (Sept. 7) - Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around.
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night - Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Sept. 7) - With humor, poetry, and a tenderness for human weaknesses, Jon Kalman Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all.
Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead (Sept. 14) - Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
The Blue Book of Nebo - Manon Steffan Ros (Sept. 14) - The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society's collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears.
Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor (Sept. 21) - Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean, Fall, Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories--even when the words may fail us.
The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki (Sept. 21) - With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is […] bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr (Sept. 28) - Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky.
Chronicles from the Happiest People on Earth - Wole Soyinka (Sept. 28) - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of that country's fiercest political activists, who just happens to be a global literary giant.
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård (Sept. 28) - The Morning Star is a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Constance - Matthew FitzSimmons (Sept. 1) - A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman's waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller.
Matrix - Lauren Groff (Sept. 7) - Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around.
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night - Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Sept. 7) - With humor, poetry, and a tenderness for human weaknesses, Jon Kalman Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all.
Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead (Sept. 14) - Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
The Blue Book of Nebo - Manon Steffan Ros (Sept. 14) - The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society's collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears.
Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor (Sept. 21) - Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean, Fall, Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories--even when the words may fail us.
The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki (Sept. 21) - With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is […] bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr (Sept. 28) - Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky.
Chronicles from the Happiest People on Earth - Wole Soyinka (Sept. 28) - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of that country's fiercest political activists, who just happens to be a global literary giant.
The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgård (Sept. 28) - The Morning Star is a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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