- Megan M.
- Thursday, October 05, 2023
Here's a tiny selection of October's bounty of new releases...
Company
Shannon Sanders
Connected short stories about multiple generations of a family, ranging from Atlantic City to New York City to Washington, D.C.
For Readers of Coleman Hill and The Turner House
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
Raul Palma
Hugo, who considers himself a fake babaláwo is asked to cleanse the house of his nemesis, a debt-collecting lawyer. When his usual tricks don't work, Hugo realizes there something more sinister going on.
For readers of The Devil Takes You Home and Desert Creatures
The Refugee Ocean
Pauls Toutonghi
Heartbreaking parallel narratives of a young victim of the war in Syria in the 2010s and a young woman in 1940s Beirut who dreams of being a composer but is stifled by her family.
For readers of The Arsonists' City and No Land to Light On
A Socialite's Guide to Dating and Death
S.K. Golden
Spoiled and rich, but charming and likeable Evelyn stumbles upon another murder in her family's hotel.
For readers of Deception by Gaslight and Relative Fortunes
The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng
A character rich historical fiction set in 1920s colonial Malaysia, interweaving the lives of writer W. Somerset Maugham and Lesley, an unhappily Englishwoman who was born and raised in Malaysia, and the Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat Sen.
For readers of The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings and Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
Allsion Epstein
In this alternate history set in Imperial Russia, a charismatic woman charms the disgraced second son of the tsar and sets off a dramatic chain of rebellious events.
For readers of Little Foxes Took Up Matches and In a land without dogs the cats learn to bark
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
In this harrowing magical realism novel about the atrocities of slavery, Annis is sold by her slaveowner who also happens to be her father and endures a brutal journey into the deep South to be resold.
For readers of Yonder by Jabiri Asim and Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
Edith Holler
Edward Carey
Edith Holler, cursed and confined for life to the theatre where she was born, writes a play uncovering the horrific secrets of Norwich's many disappearing children.
For readers of The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman and The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell