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• The Covenant of Water

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  Recommended for fans of Hilary Mantel. "This new work from Verghese is not just a novel; it is a literary landmark, a monumental treatment of family and country...[the] story spans over 70 years and three generations of a family living in Kerala on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin

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  Recommended for fans of Hilary Mantel. This historical fiction novel spans a century of hardships, triumphs, love, and family in Korea and Japan. A truly remarkable and stunning exploration of history, legacy, identity, and cruelty over the 20th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Slowworm's Song

  Miller, Andrew, 1961-

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  Recommended for fans of Hilary Mantel. "When a former soldier in the British Army receives a letter inviting him to testify before a Belfast tribunal about a fatal incident that happened 30 years ago, during his tour of duty in Northern Ireland, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica

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  Recommended for fans of Louise Erdrich. "Johns combines domestic realism and horror in her haunting debut, the story of a young Cree woman who's distraught over the death of her sister...[it] works equally well as spine-tingling thriller and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  Recommended for fans of Louise Erdrich. A unnamed narrator returns to northern Alberta, he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to questions about family, love, and happiness. Whether he’s meeting with an aunt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Noopiming

  the Cure for White Ladies

  Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-

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  Recommended for fans of Louise Erdrich. Simpson presents a genre fluid novel centred around seven characters, including conscious animals and trees, who create an interconnected web of mutually dependent relations. The reader, eventually, will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  a Novel

  Napolitano, Ann

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  Recommended for fans of Emily St. John Mandel. In a house overshadowed by tragedy, William Waters finds solace in his basketball skills and secures a college scholarship that takes him away from his painful past. However, when he falls in love with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shrines of Gaiety

  a Novel

  Atkinson, Kate

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  Recommended for fans of Emily St. John Mandel. In London after the Great War, Nellie Coker, the notorious queen of five dazzling night clubs of Soho, finds her success breeding enemies as she faces threats from without and within.

• To Paradise

  Yanagihara, Hanya

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  Recommended for fans of Emily St. John Mandel. Told in three parts and set in three centuries, this novel centres on a townhouse in Washington Square Park in New York City. The first section is set in 1893 where history has been rewritten with some…Read moreRead more of this annotation