Machine Dreams (42 page)

EVENING
by Susan Minot

In 1954 Ann Grant, a 25-year-old-career girl, travels to Maine to be a bridesmaid at the large wedding of her best friend. Forty years later, now Ann Lord, she lies dying in a house in Cambridge, and what she remembers is that a long-ago wedding weekend, when she fell in love with a passion that remains, after three marriages and five children, the defining event and the defining emotion of her life.

A
New York Times
Notable Book
Fiction/Literature/0-375-70026-9

RESERVATION ROAD
by John Burnham Schwartz

With the suspense of a heart-stopping action thriller and the psychological complexity of the best literary fiction, John Burnham Schwartz weaves together the stories of two haunted men and their families, united by an unexpected and horrendous death and its aftermath of vengeance and violence.

A
New York Times
Notable Book
Fiction/0-375-70273-3

SLAPBOXING WITH JESUS
by Victor D. LaValle

With thirteen original and interconnected stories in the tradition of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexio, Victor D. LaValle’s astonishing, violent, funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets.

Fiction/Literature/0-375-70590-2

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“Jayne Anne Phillips’s intricate, deeply felt new novel reverberates with echoes of Faulkner, Woolf, Kerouac, McCullers and Michael Herr’s war reporting, and yet it fuses all these wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original.… the characters, like those in
Machine Dreams
, are so indelible, so intimately drawn, that they threaten to move in and take up permanent residence in the reader’s mind.”

—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times

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