As a rule, the first Tuesday of the month will usually bring great tidings of books: this sunny day in May is no different. We have many bright, sparkling new works of fiction today: Booker Prize-winner Douglas Stuart’s new novel, John of John is released. As is Elizabeth Strout’s new novel featuring a fresh cast of characters, and Kathryn Stockett, author of bestseller Help, is back with a long-anticipated work called The Calamity Club. In nonfiction, we have a memoir by Siri Hustvedt about her deceased husband, Paul Aster, as well as a book of essays on poetics by Robert Hass. Below, you will find many more. Happy reading!
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Douglas Stuart, John of John
(Grove)
“With his gift for creating vibrantly specific characters and settings, Stuart again taps profound human truth.”
