Book lovers shaking last year’s sand from their beach bags are eager to restock with the latest page-turners. To help them, The Wall Street Journal asked a dozen prominent readers, writers and book-world insiders what works of fiction excite them this season.
Mr. So’s debut is centered around the Cambodian-American community in Stockton, Calif., where he grew up. With their irreverent energy, the stories reminded Mr. Perrotta of early Philip Roth novels like “Goodbye, Columbus.” Here, rebellious first-generation kids want to treat their elders like any other annoying parents, but they can’t quite, because they know those adults have fled genocide and witnessed all but unbearable tragedies, Mr. Perrotta says.
It is the early 1900s and the newly orphaned Marian Graves and her brother are dumped on an eccentric uncle in Montana. She grows up a wild child obsessed with aviation. The epic follows her as she goes on to learn to fly, despite steep odds, and then attempts to circumnavigate the globe. Ms. Haber was exhilarated by the descriptions of flying, including passages set over a beautiful and terrifying Antarctica.
While Eleanor is racing to care for her children and decorate a bûche de Noël for the holidays, her husband goes cross-country skiing, making her so angry that she throws the whole cake in the trash. The novel is full of moments like this, instants that can build or break relationships. “This has been hands down my favorite book of 2021 so far,” says Ms. Gelman, who calls the book timely given the fishbowl of family life during Covid-19 lockdown.
The English translation of the French novel came out in hardback last year, but it gained little traction here despite its cult status as the go-to lockdown book in France and Italy. “This is the most extraordinary book that no one knows about,” says Ms. Harden.
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The best work of fiction to date has to be the pandemic doesn't it? Oh and the best work of non fiction goes to GeorgeOrwell's book 1984 written so many years ago as a work of fiction that has manifested into non fiction reality.
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